China RoHS

China RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), officially known as Administrative Measure on the Control of Pollution Caused by Electronic Information Products[1] is a Chinese government regulation to control certain materials, including lead.

All items shipped to China now have to be marked as to whether the items contained in the box are compliant or non-compliant. The Electronic Information Products (EIP) logo or other label is used to mark parts and assemblies that do not contain unacceptable amounts of substances identified by the regulations, and that are environmentally safe. Units that do contain hazardous substances are marked with the EIP logo including an Environment Friendly Use Period (EFUP) value in years.

China RoHS banned substances

There are currently six substances considered environmentally hazardous by the China RoHS directive.

China RoHS does not allow any technology exemptions unlike EU RoHS 2 Directive.

Environment Friendly Use Period
Examples of EFUP labels

Environment Friendly Use Period (EFUP) is the period of time before any of the RoHS substances are likely to leak out, causing possible harm to health and the environment.[2] Each product that contains RoHS substances above the maximum permitted concentration values is labelled with an orange circle composed of two arrows containing a number that gives the EFUP in years; for example, a circled 10 indicates an EFUP of 10 years.[2] A special EFUP label containing the letter "e" indicates that the product contains less than the maximum concentration value of all six hazardous substances.[3]

gollark: This is at least... internally consistent and whatever, I think, it's just rather horrifying and not something I want to be judged by or anyone to be judged by.
gollark: Oh, and if for some reason you're an *incredibly* self-confident person who thinks all acts they do are right, you'll turn out maximally non-evil.
gollark: Being vaguely aware of that sort of thing, and also that I live in a relatively comfortable position in what is among the richest societies ever, I feel bad about *not* doing more things, which would cause me to be more evil than someone who just ignores this issue forever, which is not, according to arbitrary moral intuitions I have™, something which an evilness measuring thing should say.
gollark: With any actual planning you can just give away as much as reasonably possible. It's just an issue of good management of stuff.
gollark: There are *not* that many people who actually go to the logical conclusion of that line of thinking and go "guess I'll donate all my excess income to charities".

See also

References
  1. http://www.chinarohs.com/
  2. http://www.electronicsweekly.com/blogs/electronics-legislation/2007/03/china-rohs-new-efup-guidance.html
  3. "Home > Solutions > Packaging > China RoHS". Lattice Semiconductor Corporation. Archived from the original on 16 September 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.