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Cathode ray tube televisions (TVs) contributes significantly to the rapidly increasing waste stream of cathode ray tubes in the e-waste. This study mainly focused on the material flow of waste cathode ray tube TVs in China. Currently, waste cathode ray tubes constitute a major part of the total generation of e-waste in China. The study aimed to emphasise the flow of materials in the generated waste cathode ray tube TVs by using stock-based material flow analysis model. The modelling was conducted to investigate the disposable number of obsolete devices, in-use stock, and end-of-life of cathode ray tube TVs. SubSTance flow ANalysis (STAN) software was used to perform the material flow analysis modelling and graphical model of the waste cathode ray tube TVs. The results show that in a period of 10 years, overall about 3241.37 kt of cathode ray tube TVs were net produced in China, containing 183.6 kt of glass, 1718.2 kt of plastic, 243 kt of steel/iron, 153.5 kt of lead, 76.6 kt of copper, 7.8 kt of aluminium, and 1.6 kt of antimony. The results revealed that almost 125 kt of end-of-life cathode ray tube TVs containing about 68 kt of glass, 40 kt of plastic, 9 kt of steel/iron, 6 kt of lead, 3 kt of copper, 0.3 kt of aluminium, and 0.07 kt of antimony were dumped in the period of 10 years. Therefore, the management of waste cathode ray tube TVs required better infrastructure for recycling and better regulation to achieve better results in the high recovery of valuable resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of fluorescent lamps has expanded rapidly all over the world in recent years, because of their energy-saving capability. Consequently, however, mercury emissions from production, breakage, and discard of the lamps are drawing increasing concern from the public. This article focuses on evaluating the amount of mercury used for fluorescent lamp production, as well as the potential mercury emissions during production and breakage, in mainland China. It is expected to provide a comprehensive understanding about the risks present in the mercury from fluorescent lamps, and to know about the impacts of the policies on fluorescent lamps after their implementation. It is estimated that, in 2020, mercury consumption will be about 11.30–15.69 tonnes, a significant reduction of 34.9%–37.4% from that used in 2013, owing to improvement in mercury dosing dosage technology and tighter limitations on mercury content in fluorescent lamps. With these improvements, the amount of mercury remaining in fluorescent lamps and released during production is estimated to be 10.71–14.86 and 0.59–0.83 tonnes, respectively; the mercury released from waste fluorescent lamps is estimated to be about 5.37–7.59 tonnes. Also, a significant reduction to the mercury emission can be expected when a collection and treatment system is well established and conducted in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indialite ceramic was prepared using fly ash and magnesium carbonate powder as precursors. The effects of sintering aids LiOH · H2O and TiO2 on its crystallization and morphology evolution were studied as well. X-ray diffraction results indicated that the formation of indialite was achieved by solid-state sintering reactions at 1200°C for 4 h. With increasing amounts of LiOH · H2O, the viscosity decreased and β-spodumene, spinel phases started to develop at the expense of indialite. Scanning electron microscopy observations revealed that the surface of the sintered samples became smoother with higher porosity losses and grain size reduction. As the TiO2 contents increased from 4 to 10%, dauphine-twinned quartz and rutile were formed by simultaneously consuming indialite. In this process, the viscosity showed no significant changes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]