Light on mercury
Regulations to check mercury pollution take backseat as Centre promotes fluorescent light
CFL is a leapfrog option for India as it increases efficiency, but the lack of regulations is jeopardising the programme
New Delhi, February 4, 2009: The burgeoning compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) sector in India is faced with some key concerns, and the most critical of them is the problem of disposal of mercury used in CFLs: this was the consensus at a Round Table meeting on the sector, organised here today by the New Delhi-based research and advocacy organisation, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE).