Management Countermeasures of Spent Fluorescent Lamps (SFLs) in Lanzhou

Abstract

Lanzhou is one of the largest and most important cities in the west part of China. Similar to other megacities in China, Lanzhou produces a lot of SFLs (Spent Fluorescent Lamps) each year too. SFLs in Lanzhou come from four sources: Industrial, commercial, municipal and residential. Consumers of fluorescent lamps have different concepts on how to manage SFLs well. These concepts are established based on their own social cultural norms, moral values and environmental awareness. Most of them are both ineffective and unscientific; SFLs are discarded regularly into trash and buried in landfills. So how to manage SFLs efficiently and effectively becomes a great challenge. So far, no professional companies can collect, dispose, and manage with SFLs well in Lanzhou area. It is necessary and urgent to establish management funds for collecting and disposing SFLs. This article has built a recycling management mode of SFLs, and has done some explanations on how to implement the model.