China Mercury-related Information Analysis Repot
Description
This project is in collaboration with the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) of China and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency(USEPA). The tasks for this project consist of two parts: (1) Collection of various information relating to mercury in China, including policy and legal standards, science research documents, statistics, publications, etc. (2) Analysis and estimation of data for industries mercury use (including discharges of mercury into the environment from “intentional” and “unintentional” use) and the environment (i.e. air, water, soil and biology) for China , according to the categorization in the report of “Global Mercury Assessment” by UNEP. All materials and data were synthesized into three appendices: Appendix 1: Industries intentionally using mercury; Appendix 2: Industries/activities unintentionally using mercury; Appendix 3: mercury in different environmental media. All mercury emission sources listed in GMA can be found in China to some extent. Among them, there are over 10 industries that intentionally use mercury during their production process, and 4 industries/activities that emit mercury unintentionally. The analysis and evaluation of this report categorizes mercury-related industries into three groups, namely “good”, “medium” and “bad”, according to the amount of available and credible information these industries possess regarding mercury use.
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