Guangdong Energy-Saving Lamps Export Growth Surged, with Huge Recycling Cost

According to Guangzhou customs statistics, the first ten months of this year, Guangdong exported 510 billion energy-saving lamps, with increasingly 46.1% of the corresponding period of last year growth, and value 450 billion dollars, increasing 63.7%; average export price for each $0.89, the rise of 12.0%. However, waste recycling system urgently needs to establish energy-saving lamps, while mercury pollution does not allow ignoring.

To energy-saving lamp recycling system, China is still in the blank, however, there are only three manufacturers that have the recovery processing equipment. Because of the huge recycling cost, they stop to setting the recycling system. Energy-saving lamps recovery processing line each strip cost about 10 million RMB. Due to the recycling waste costly energy-saving lamps, and lack of government subsidies, general production enterprises are not be recycled.