The wastage and damage to the environment in China has no limit. Just attend those big sport events, concerts or parties. You all get those funny sticks that flash, shine, blink, glow etc.
Cute.
The only problem is: they are to be used once only and thrown away. Many are of such poor quality they often fail to work. Even if you want to re-use them, difficult. So they mostly all end up in the garbage after the party and obviously, this being China, don’t expect “recycling”.
One of the worst examples is what we got attending the New Year Party of the Beijing Development & Reform Commission, see picture.

The sticks, made of plastic, contain 3 small cell batteries, a small electronic circuit with a switch and LEDs (I think). Works actually well but the problem is they promptly are thrown away and the environmental impact is serious. Just imagine thousands of those ending up in landfills every day. At least I brought them home and will take out the cells if I throw them away.

One would think that buying at IKEA gives you more reliability. Well, tough luck.
The energy saving lamps I bought there promise the usual – “10,000 hours”. I don’t know really on what planet that might be. Many Chinese similar lamps don’t last long either, but I was hoping IKEA would do better. Maybe like Valerie said, it’s not 10,000 hours of operation, it’s 10,000 hours you HAVE the lamp. They get busted too quickly really. They don’t even mention the color of the “white” light. The IKEA lights turned out to be very yellow and contrast a lot with other Philips energy saving lamps. So, sure not likely to buy them again.
I bought the cute extension cords hoping they would at least work or work better than the usual Chinese crap. Wrong again. At first I blamed the plug. Finally I opened the extension cord and found the middle wire was not soldered to the terminal – the wire was a little too short and jumped off the terminal. Once soldered, in business again

Some months ago I bought a small pocket lamp on one of the regular markets around Worker’s Stadium. It looked cute, got it for 15 RMB and said to myself, if it is a scam well, it looks fun at least. The idea is to recharge an internal battery by activating a small generator, to light up the LEDs.
Surprise, it worked. Till one day it made a funny noise and the generator went dead.
I opened it up and after some head scratching got it all together again.

Verdict: the plastic body is not strong enough and pumping up the generator risks pulling the rotor out of its plastic casing. Now it works again.
Pity, no any indication of the manufacturer. I would be ready to pay much more for it if it were robust enough. Or, the typical problem in China: good idea, cheap execution, unreliable. Normally it would quickly land in the rubbish (without recycling, of course).
Potential clients: people who are afraid of the next nuclear war and build their shelter – and as an emergency light where you don’t want to run out of batteries.