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Title: Mercury in Your Home


1
Mercury in Your Home
2
Mercury in Your Home
  • Thermostats
  • Dental amalgams
  • Light switches
  • Thermometers
  • Fluorescent lights
  • Batteries
  • Appliance switches
  • Toys

3
Knowing which products contain mercury and
handling them properly will limit the risk of
mercury exposure.
4
Lighting Products Containing Mercury
  • Fluorescent bulbs
  • environmentally friendly
  • energy-efficient
  • last longer
  • kitchen, workshop, garage, and other home
    lighting
  • Metal halide bulbs
  • Street lights, security, and floodlights

5
Lighting Products Containing Mercury
  • High-pressure sodium bulbs
  • street, security, and floodlights
  • Neon bulbs used in novelty
  • lounge, and retail store lighting.
  • Automotive headlamps
  • characteristic blue tint when lit

6
Lighting Products Containing Mercury
  • Dispose of mercury-containing bulbs
  • recycling site
  • Mercury-containing bulb recyclers are identified
    at the following website

7
Mercury in Medical Supply
  • Thermometers
  • silver liquid in thermometers
  • different-colored liquid (usually red)
  • contain alcohol, not mercury
  • Blood pressure cuffs
  • different-colored liquid (usually red)
  • contain alcohol, not mercury

8
Mercury Thermometer
  • Rite-Aid
  • stop selling mercury thermometers
  • Michigan banned sales of mercury thermometers,
    thermostat, blood pressure devices and medical
    devices.
  • 1997
  • For more information, visit www.michigan.gov/deq/0
    ,1607,7-135-3307_29693_4175-160230--,00.html

9
Mercury Thermostat
  • Mercury-containing tilt switches
  • more than 40 years
  • Many older thermostats and some current ones use
    switches containing mercury.
  • Michigan band

10
Appliance Switches
  • Gas-fired appliances
  • stoves, ovens, water heaters, clothes dryers,
    furnaces, and space heaters
  • Switches
  • Clothing irons, top loading freezers, and washing
    machines may use switches containing mercury

11
Toys Containing Mercury
  • Barometers
  • weather instrument
  • Old chemistry sets and mercury mazes
  • Children's chemistry sets were once sold with
    liquid mercury
  • the mercury maze, contains a drop of mercury that
    is moved through the maze

12
Other Items with Mercury
  • Batteries
  • contain mercuric oxide
  • All shapes and sizes
  • commonly used in calculators, cameras, hearing
    aids, and watches
  • Lighted athletic shoes
  • Pre-1997 tennis shoes with light-up soles contain
    mercury

13
Other Items with Mercury
  • Paint
  • latex paint made before 1990
  • Microwave ovens
  • Bulbs-older ovens
  • Disinfectants
  • Pesticides
  • before 1990

14
Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facilities
  • For more information, please visit
  • www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3585_4130-115394
    --,00.html
  • www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3307_29693_4175-
    11761--,00.html
  • www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3307_29693_4175-
    160230--,00.html
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