TOKYO, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) — Japan’s cupboard on Tuesday authorised a revision to a authorities ordinance to ban the manufacture, import and export of all normal lighting fluorescent lamps by the tip of 2027.
The resolution got here after the members of a global conference towards mercury air pollution agreed final yr to ban the manufacturing and commerce of all fluorescent lamps, citing the human well being dangers posed by the tools’s use of the substance.
The ban will probably be carried out in phases in line with the kind of fluorescent lamp.
Starting from January 2026, incandescent fluorescent lamps will probably be banned, adopted by compact fluorescent lamps from January 2027. The most generally used varieties, together with straight tubular and round fluorescent lamps, will stop manufacturing and importation beginning January 2028.
Mercury, which is liquid at room temperature, is utilized in a variety of merchandise, resembling fluorescent lamps, thermometers and batteries. Exposure to excessive quantities of mercury can result in long-term and typically everlasting well being impacts.
In Japan, main home producers together with Panasonic Corp. have introduced they may finish manufacturing of fluorescent lamps by the tip of September 2027.