The sale of paint has been banned in Shenzhen since July

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News: Shenzhen Concert Hall in front of the conductor sculpture open arms like hugging the blue sky and white clouds, in order to protect the air quality in Shenzhen, the City Habitat Committee to make a new move.
new way to control air pollution in Shenzhen. From July 1, the total ban on solvent-based
coatings
(
paints
), adhesives and other non-conforming decoration materials, has become the first in the country to limit the sale and use of solvent-based coatings (paints). During the same period, non-road mobile machinery with substandard exhaust will also be banned from construction sites, factories, port terminals and other places in Shenzhen. This is the reporter yesterday from the city's Habitat Environment Committee was informed.
the beginning of this year, the Municipal Habitat Environment Commission set a clear target for the prevention and control of air pollution: in 2015, the city's average annual concentration of PM2.5 decreased to 33 micrograms per cubic meter. Halfway through this year, how effective is it? Reporters from the Municipal Habitat Environment Commission published the "April 2015 Shenzhen Environmental Air Quality Status Notice" to see that in April this year, Shenzhen PM2.5 concentration of only 28 micrograms / cubic meters, down 4 micrograms / cubic meters, and all pollutant concentrations than the same period last year have decreased by different degrees, including nitrogen dioxide concentration, carbon monoxide concentration and ozone concentration. From January to April this year, Shenzhen's comprehensive environmental air quality index has been ranked in the top 10 in the country, and is the only first-tier city in the "top 10" with a population of more than 10 million. The effect of rectification is obvious.LiuChuhan, director of the Habitat Environment Commission of
City, told reporters that in order to achieve this year's PM2.5 down to 33 micrograms per cubic meter target, the commission will be on July 1 to launch a number of air pollution depth control measures.
, the volatile organic matter is treated in depth. The Special Administrative Region Technical Specifications for the Limits of Harmful Substances of Building Decoration Coatings and Adhesives were issued, and the second phase of hazardous substances content limits was implemented from July 1, 2015, and solvent-based coatings (paints), adhesives and other unqualified decoration materials that seriously endanger the health of the public were completely banned. To this end, Shenzhen has become the first city in the country to restrict the sale and use of solvent-based coatings (paints).
, the diesel engine for non-road mobile machinery is treated in depth. On July 1, 2015, the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SE SPECIAL) officially implemented the technical specifications of "Emission limits and measurement methods for diesel engine exhausts using non-road mobile machinery", and the use of non-road mobile machinery with substandard exhaust standards will be prohibited at construction sites, factories, port terminals, etc. in Shenzhen.
It is understood that the important cause of haze weather is PM2.5, the main source of its production, automobile exhaust emissions accounted for 30%, VOC (volatile organic compounds) emissions accounted for 21%, and recent relevant data show that about 18% of VOC emissions are generated by solvent-based coatings (paint) emissions.
environmentalists told reporters that paint with organic solvents as thinners, energy consumption, pollution of the environment, toxic and harmful and flammable and explosive. In 2004, the European Union enacted legislation prohibiting the production and use of paint. "Paint is more harmful than that, because it needs to be diluted with organic solvents extracted from oil and coal, which not only consume fossil energy, but also contain a large number of benzene, toluene, xylene, formaldehyde and other toxic and harmful substances, its volatility of more than ten years. Traditional paints often use large quantities of toxic and harmful volatile organic solvents as thinners, and some products also use curing agents containing free TDI, resulting in a large amount of air pollution. The long-term inhalation of these solvents and curing agents of volatile gases, easy to lead to regenerative anemia, leukemia, tuberculosis, thoracicitis and other serious diseases. ”