Tianjin: Big supermarket is hard to find incandescent hardware store is still on sale

May 15, 2023

According to the relevant documents of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, from October 1 this year, the import and sale of ordinary lighting incandescent lamps of 100 watts or more is prohibited. However, the regulations have been more than half a month. The reporter visited Tianjin and found that although the major supermarkets have been difficult to see incandescent lamps, in the lighting market and many hardware stores, incandescent lamps above 100 watts are still not difficult to buy. According to the relevant documents of the National Development and Reform Commission and other departments, from October 1 this year, the import and sale of ordinary lighting incandescent lamps of 100 watts and above will be banned. However, this regulation has passed more than half a month. The reporter visited Tianjin and found that although the major supermarkets have been difficult to see incandescent lamps, but in the lighting market, Hardware Metals stores and many Hardware Tools stores, more than 100 watts of incandescent lamps are still not difficult to buy.

"We don't sell incandescent bulbs." When visiting major Hardware Material supermarkets, sales staff said that incandescent lamps are gradually withdrawing from the market. The supermarket stopped selling incandescent lamps for a long time, and now they are selling energy-saving lamps.

Subsequently, the reporter visited Miyun Road hardware City. Incandescent lamps of more than 100 watts are not hard to find in many lighting stores here. In lighting stores, incandescent lamps are still in boxes on the side of the store, and 100 watt, 150 watt, 200 watt incandescent lamps are sold. "These incandescent lamps are relatively cheap, only 1 yuan 1.5 for 100 watts, and energy-saving lamps are much more expensive." If the brightness wants to reach the level of incandescent lamps, then this energy-saving lamp must be 40 or 50 yuan." The owner of the lighting shop told reporters.

The reporter found that the average 100-watt incandescent lamp on the market only sells for 1 yuan or 1.5 yuan, and the expensive 150 watts and 200 watts are also about two or three, while the same brightness energy-saving lamps are the cheapest. A few dollars.

For the ban on the sale of incandescent lamps of 100 watts and above from October 1, many businesses said they had not heard of it. However, most merchants admit that the current sales of more than 100 watts of incandescent lamps are in stock, and it is not clear whether they can be stored.

Incandescent lamp due to its short heating temperature, low luminous efficiency, lack of energy saving and environmental protection, fragile and other shortcomings, is slowly withdrawing from the historical stage. It is reported that by 2016, incandescent lamps will be completely phased out.
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