when I lived in rural New Jersey (yikes) you could drop them off at the
Dept. of Sanitation or put them in a plastic bag and hand them to the
sanitation worker....you could not toss them in the trash...a minute
quantity in a clean-burn furnace caused the facility to fail it's continuous
emission test.
Bruce Kolber
St. Petersburg, FL 33715
USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Timpe, Jim" <Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:23 PM
Subject: RE: [OM] mercury batteries
> I think, as a non-commercial entity, you are permitted to just toss them
in
> your trash. As a 'normal' citizen, the expectation is that you're not
> disposing of several pounds of the stuff.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Lazzari [mailto:watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 11:10 AM
> To: Olympus-Digest
> Subject: [OM] mercury batteries
>
>
> Everyone talks about where to get these batteries and conversion kits
> and voltage but I want to know how to safely and responsibly dispose of
> the little buggers. (in the US) I'd even mail them somewhere if that
> were necessary.
>
> Mike
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