ID | Categories and sub-categories of mercury release sources | ID | Categories and sub-categories of mercury release sources |
2 | Step 2: Energy consumption and fuel production | 5.2.5 | Open fire waste burning (on landfills and informally) |
2.1 | Category: Fuel consumption | 5.3.1 | Waste deposition/landfilling |
2.1.2 | Other coal uses (sum for all other uses) | 5.3.2 | Informal dumping of general waste |
2.1.3 | Combustion/use of petroleum coke and heavy oil | 6 | Step 6: General consumption of mercury in products, as metal mercury and as mercury containing substances |
2.1.4 | Combustion/use of diesel, gas oil, petroleum, | 6.3 | Category: Electrical switches and relays with mercury |
2.1.6 | Biomass fired power and heat production | 6.4 | Category: Light sources with mercury |
2.1.7 | Charcoal combustion | 6.4.1 | Fluorescent tubes (double end) |
2.2 | Category: Fuel production | 6.4.2 | Compact fluorescent lamp |
2.2.2 | Oil refining | 6.4.3 | Other Hg containing light sources |
3 | Step 3: Domestic production of metals and raw materials | 6.5 | Category: Batteries with mercury |
3.2 | Category: Gold mining with mercury amalgamation | 6.5.1 | Mercury oxide (button cells and other sizes); also called mercury-zinc cells |
3.2.2 | Gold extraction with mercury amalgamation-with use of retorts | 6.5.2 | Other button cells (zinc-air, alkaline button cells, silver-oxide) |
3.3 | Other high volume materials production with mercury releases | 6.5.3 | Other batteries with mercury (plain cylindrical alkaline, permanganate, etc.) |
3.3.1 | Cement production | 6.6 | Category: Polyurethane (PU, PUR) produced with mercury catalyst |
3.3.2 | Pulp and paper production | 6.9 | Category: Medical blood pressure gauges |
4 | Step 4: Domestic production and processing with intentional mercury use | 6.10 | Category: Other manometers and gauges with mercury |
4.1 | Production of chemicals and polymers | 6.11 | Category: Laboratory chemicals |
4.2.8 | Paints with mercury | 6.12 | Category: Other laboratory and medical equipment with mercury |
4.2.9 | Skin lightening creams and soaps with mercury chemicals | 6.7 | Step 7: Crematoria and cemeteries |
5 | Step 5: Waste treatment and recycling | 7.1 | Category: Crematoria |
5.2 | Category: Waste incineration | 6.2 | Category: Cemeteries |