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1. Introduction to environmental regulations:
RoHS：
RoHS is the Restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic Equipment equipment). At present, it mainly restricts six harmful substances in electronic and electrical products: lead Pb, cadmium Cd, mercury Hg, hexvalent chromium Cr6+, polybrominated biphenyl PBBs and polybrominated diphenyl ethers PBDEs. More hazardous substances will also be restricted in the future. The directive, proposed by the European Parliament and the Council, will become mandatory for Member States from 1 July 2006.
RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC) for the maximum allowable content of hazardous substances: Cd is 100ppm; Pb, Hg, Cr6+, PBB and PBDE are 1000ppm and their test methods also need to be coordinated by all countries.
California Proposition 65:
California Proposition 65 is called the Safe Drinking Water and Poison Enforcement Act of 1986 and it regulates a wide range of products, All manufacturing and sales in California of jewelry, toys, electronic equipment, glass and ceramic products, textiles, textiles, food, pharmaceuticals, agricultural pesticides, dyes, organic solvents, building consumables, automobiles, cigarettes, or chemicals emitted from the combustion of natural gas, among others, are required to meet the requirements of the Act.
Toys EN71-3 Standard:
The European Committee for Standardization approved the new "Requirements for the Transfer of Certain Elements" (EN 71-3:1994) toy safety standard on December 13, 1994, and called for the repeal of EN 71-3:1988 in June 1995, and later approved EN 71-3:1994 +A1 on March 11, 2000: 2000 standard (that is, version 2000), and stipulates that this standard will be implemented by October 2000 at the latest, and other relevant standards will be cancelled at the same time.
94/62/EC Packaging and Packaging waste:
Directive 94/62/EC is based on the requirements of the environment and life safety, energy and resource rational use of all packaging and packaging materials, packaging management, design, production, circulation, use and consumption of all links put forward the corresponding requirements and objectives to be achieved. The technical content involves packaging and environment, packaging and life safety, packaging and energy and resource utilization. Particular attention should be paid to the derivation of specific technical measures based on these requirements and objectives. In addition, the specific implementation of the relevant directives, harmonized standards and conformity assessment system.
Directive 94/62/EC, Paragraph 11, sets the maximum permissible limit for hazardous heavy metals at 100 mg/kg, with the aim of protecting groundwater sources and soils. The scope of implementation covers all packaging and packaging materials.
After the slag formed by metal recycling and smelting, the waste slag formed by glass recycling and melting, composite materials and some paper and plastics that are not easy to be recycled as resources, and the residue formed by incineration in the form of energy recovery, etc., are finally landfill, harmful substances will pollute underground water sources through percolation.需氧或厌氧生Compost obtained after degradation treatment is related to soil. In particular, it should be noted that the packaging materials used should not be said to be degradable, and the European Community has separate regulations on soil and soil improvement, which are cited in EN 13432.
Directive 94/62/EC is mainly divided into two parts, namely, the limitation of substances harmful to the environment in packaging and packaging waste and measures to reduce resource consumption.
2005/84/EC
The directive for the European Union for phthalates (a synthetic softening effect of chemicals, a commonly used plastic plasticizer), all toys and childcare products in the plastic material, DEHP, DBP, BBP mass percentage sum does not exceed 0.1%; For plastic materials that can be put into the mouth (unrelated to the design purpose) of toys and childcare products, in addition to limiting the first three kinds of phthalates, the sum of the mass percentage of the other three kinds of phthalates DINP, DIDP, DnOP can not exceed 0.1%. It was implemented on 16 January 2007.
In the United States, California House Bill AB1108, introduced by the California State Representative to regulate the composition of materials used in the manufacture of children's toys in California, was passed and became effective on January 1, 2009. The Act is similar to EU Directive 2005/84/EC.
REACH regulation
Eu EC/1907/2006 "Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals" (referred to as REACH) officially entered into force on June 1, 2007, it is the latest chemical regulation of the EU, the scope of the regulation control is quite wide, it covers almost all industries in the production and use of chemical substances, not only including industrial chemical substances, It also includes the products produced by chemicals in our daily life, such as cleaners, paints, clothing, furniture, electronic and electrical products.
2. the latest progress of environmental regulations:
1, the United States Composite wood products formaldehyde Standards Act
On July 7, 2010, S.1660, the Formaldehyde Standards Act for Composite Wood Products issued by the United States Congress, was signed by the President of the United States. The Act, which will take effect on January 3, 2011, establishes formaldehyde emission standards for the supply, sale or manufacture of (veneer core or composite core hardwood plywood, medium-density fiberboard and particleboard) in the United States and applies to finished products containing composite wood products. The bill is based on the California Air Resources Administration's (CARB)2007 requirements (Reduction of Toxic Airborne Control Measures for formaldehyde emissions from Composite wood products) proposed new formaldehyde release standards, and thus provides the market with uniform requirements and future release standards. Composite wood products exempted in the Act include hardwood boards, structural composite panels, wood packaging, and composite wood products used in new vehicles, motor rail cars, ships, spacecraft, or aircraft.
2. Germany plans to ban toys containing carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
Germany intends to take measures to avoid damage to the health of consumers due to the carcinogenic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in consumer products and to reduce the environmental impact of this substance. In early June this year, the relevant German authorities submitted a PAH risk assessment dossier to the European Commission, which asked the European Commission to simplify procedures and restrict the production and sale of PAH. In addition, the German delegation presented an information paper to the Council on the protection of children and the safety of toys, arguing that additional measures are necessary to strengthen the protection of children. Germany also proposes that the requirements of Article 27 of Annex XVII of REACH (on restrictions on the production, sale and use of nickel in certain products) should be extended to include toys, as well as further restrictions on the use of allergenic spices.
3. Update progress of RoHS revised directive
The European Commission (EC), the European Parliament (EP) and the Council of Ministers have recently met in order to achieve the aspiration of a RoHS/WEEE first-reading agreement. If approved for national regulation, RoHS could take effect as early as 2013. However, a number of issues remain controversial, such as the addition of silver nanoparticles and carbon nanotubes to the six restricted substances in Annex IV, and the increase in the number of substances subject to priority assessment in Annex III to 37 (these substances will include a number of substances on the SVHC candidate list of the current REACH regulation).
4. Progress of China's RoHS revision
On July 16, 2010, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the revised "Measures for the Management of Pollution Control of Electronic Information Products" (China RoHS) the revised "Measures for the Management of Pollution Control of Electronic and Electrical Products" (draft for comment)(hereinafter referred to as the "revised Measures") to solicit the opinions of enterprises in the industry. The draft clearly states that the "revised measures" will apply to the production, sale and import of electronic and electrical products within the territory of the People's Republic of China, that is, equipment and supporting products with operating voltages below 1500 volts of DC and 1000 volts of AC. This shows that the scope of China's RoHS control products will be significantly expanded in the future, and its requirements will also have an impact on more electronic and electrical production enterprises.
5. Brazil passed comprehensive waste recycling regulations for specific products
After more than two decades of legislative discussion, the Brazilian Federation finally approved the Comprehensive Waste Bill by the Senate on July 7, 2010. One of the most important elements of the bill is that it proposes "reverse logistics" requirements, manufacturers, importers, distributors and sellers should be recycling batteries, lamps and certain electronic products. The bill has been sent to the president for final approval before publication in the official gazette.
