By Vedant .R Bharadwaj

1. Our little efforts to preserve
our nature

2. Introduction

3. STATEMENT OF NECESSITY

4. Objectives under Environment
Awareness Drive…..

5. Once the life time of these lamps have ended, they
generate a
hazardous waste due to the release of mercury,
which must be
properly disposed of. As the use of fluorescent
lamps (FLs),
including Fluorescent Tube Light (FTL) and
Compact Fluorescent
Lamp (CFL), is increasing due to its energy
efficiency over the
conventional incandescent lamps;

8. Besides its elemental form (Hg0), mercury can be
found in the
nature in different speciation conditions. One of
them is ionic
mercury, that is, under certain environmental
conditions, able to
originate organic compounds known as organo-
mercury. Mercury
can exist as a cationic species because of the
oxidation of the
elemental mercury, producing mercurous ((Hg+1))
and mercuric
((Hg+2)) ions.

9. India has crossed 100 million.
Incandescent lamp (GLS)
production has further increased by
more than 20% during 2006.
Similarly, the fluorescent lamp
market has shown a growth of 10%
in 2006. HID lamp segment
has equally shown good results of
24% growth in 2006. It is
estimated that the luminaries market
has been growing at least
25 to 30% per annum for the last
two years.

18. PRESENT TREATMENT &
DISPOSAL PRACTICES IN INDIA

19. Consumption

20. Pollution caused due to e-waste

21. Enviromental effects