Step

Kg Hg/year

Category

Kg Hg/year

Sub-Category

Step 2: Energy consumption and fuel production

306.00

Fuel consumption

98.00

Other coal uses (sum for all other uses)

Combustion/use of petroleum coke and heavy oil

Combustion/use of diesel, gasoil, petroleum, kerosene

Biomass fired power and heat production (wood, etc.)

Charcoal combustion

Fuel production

208.00

Oil refining

Step 3: Domestic production of metals and raw materials

432.00

Gold mining with mercury amalgamation

1.00

Gold extraction with mercury amalgamation-with use of retorts

Other high volume materials production with mercury releases

431.00

Cement production

Pulp and paper production

Step 4: Domestic production and processing with intentional mercury use

88.00

Production of products with mercury content

88.00

Paints with mercury

Skin lightening creams and soaps with mercury chemicals

Step 5: Waste treatment and recycling

3086.00

Waste incineration

2750.00

Open fire waste burning (on landfills and informally)

Waste deposition/landfilling

336.00

Waste deposition/landfilling

Waste water treatment

Step 6: General consumption of mercury in products, as metal mercury and as mercury containing substances

3189.00

Use and disposal of products with mercury content

678.00

Dental amalgam fillings (“silver” fillings)

Thermometers

468.00

Medical Hg thermometers

Electrical switches and relays with mercury

633.00

Electrical switches and relays with mercury

Light sources with mercury

78.00

Fluorescent tubes (double end)

Compact fluorescent lamp (CFL single end)

Other Hg containing light sources

Batteries with mercury

63.00

Mercury oxide (button cells and other sizes); also called mercury-zinc cells

Other button cells (zinc-air, alkaline button cells, silver-oxide)

Other batteries with mercury (plain cylindrical alkaline, permanganate, etc.)

Polyurethane (PU, PUR) produced with mercury catalyst

136.00

Polyurethane (PU, PUR) produced with mercury catalyst

Medical blood pressure gauges (mercury sphygmomanometers)

884.00

Medical blood pressure gauges (mercury sphygmomanometers)

Other manometers and gauges with mercury

23.00

Other manometers and gauges with mercury

Laboratory chemicals

45.00

Laboratory chemicals

Other laboratory and medical equipment with mercury (porosimetry, pycnometry, hanging drop electrodes = polarimetry, etc.)

181.00

Other laboratory and medical equipment with mercury (porosimetry, pycnometry, hanging drop electrodes = polarimetry, etc.)

Step 7: Crematoria and cemeteries

46.10

Crematoria

45.0

Crematoria

Cemeteries

1.00

Cemeteries

TOTAL

7147.00

7147.00