Mercury Reduction Program Publications

Mercury-Added Products Found at Drinking Water & Wastewater Treatment Facilities [PDF]
2010. 40 pp. Provides information about mercury-containing devices likely to be found at drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities to support outreach efforts during the upgrades of primary and secondary wastewater and drinking water treatment facilities.

Review of Compact Fluorescent Lamp Recycling Initiatives in the U.S. and Internationally [PDF]
2009. 24 pp. Reviews compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) collection and recycling programs in the U.S. and abroad to highlight lessons learned.

Trends in Mercury Use in Products
2008. 30 pp. Summarizes mercury use in products sold in the United States in 2001 and 2004 to identify trends and opportunities for improvements in the collection and recycling of mercury waste.

IMERC Factsheets
2008-2010. Provides fact sheets on mercury use in targeted categories of products that summarize data provided by manufacturers and distributors of mercury-added products to the IMERC-member states.

Review and Assessment of Thermostat Recycling Activities in the Northeast [PDF]
2008. 27 pp. Provides an assessment of mercury-added thermostat collection and recycling programs.

Reducing Mercury in the Northeast United States [PDF]
2008. 5 pp. Covers the regional initiative in the Northewast to reduce mercury in the environment. This article appears in the May 2008 issue of EM Magazine, a publication of the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA; www.awma.org). To obtain copies and reprints, please contact A&WMA directly at (412) 232-3444.

Mercury Success Stories:
2007. Describes results of mercury reduction programs in the Northeast that have targeted emissions controls, reduction and management of mercury-containing products, and wastewater discharges. Press Release [PDF]

• Summary [PDF]
• NEIWPCC [PDF]
• NESCAUM [PDF]
• NEWMOA [PDF]

New Jersey DEP Dental Amalgam Posters:
2007. Provides posters for dentists in NJ on best management practices for dental amalgam waste and for dental patients on their choices of restorative materials.

• Best Management Practices for Amalgam Waste [PDF]
• Dentists are Doing Their Part [PDF]

New York Dental Amalgam Poster [PDF]
2006. Provides a poster on best management practices for handling of dental amalgam wastes in NY.

Reported Mercury Spills in the Northeast States [PDF]
2001. 12 pp. Provides an analysis of data from environmental and public health agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont on the occurrence of spills of mercury.

Instructions for Cleaning Up "Small" Mercury Spills in Households [PDF]
2003. 7 pp. Contains basic instructions on how to clean-up small liquid mercury spills.

Mercury in Schools and Communities
Contains extensive information on identifying and removing elemental mercury and products containing mercury from schools and from homes.

State-specific Lamp Recycling Flyers:

• Connecticut [PDF]
• Maine [PDF]
• Massachusetts [PDF]
• New Hampshire [PDF]
• New Jersey [PDF]
• New York [PDF]
• Rhode Island [PDF]
• Vermont, see www.mercvt.org [PDF]

Advertisement: Don't trash fluorescent lamps! Recycle them. [PDF]

How to Recycle Mercury Lamps in 8 Easy Steps [PDF]
Provides basic guidance on how to recycle mercury lamps.

Mercury Pollution in the Northeast - A Guide for Policymakers
2005. 4 pp. Provides a guide for policy makers on reducing mercury pollution.

Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) Analysis of Waste Dental Amalgam [PDF]
2004. 5 pp. Provies a review of the available TCLP analyses of dental amalgam waste.

One Gram of Mercury Can Contaminate a Twenty Acre Lake [PDF]
2004. 1 pp. Provides clarification about this commonly cited statistic

Survey of Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) Wholesalers [PDF]
2003. 12 pp. Provides a survey of the TRC wholesalers in the Northeast.

Summary of Research on Mercury Emissions from Municipal Landfills [PDF]
2003. 7 pp. Provides a review of the available literature on mercury releases from landfills.

Indoor Air Mercury [PDF]
2003. 8 pp. Provides a report describing why mercury is a problem in indoor air, the sources of mercury in indoor air, guidelines for mercury exposure, and studies on indoor air mercury.

Review of the Thermostat Recycling Corporation Activities in the Northeast [PDF]
2003. 12 pp. Provides results of a phone survey of the electrical wholesale firms in the Northeast that participate in the TRC program to collect used mercury-containing thermostats.

Federal Facilities Case Studies
2001. Provides case studies that represent the culmination of a cooperative effort of the Environmental Protection Agency New England (EPA NE), NEWMOA, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (Mass DEP), and four New England Federal Facilities to develop a methodology to assist Federal Facilities to identify and reduce uses of mercury.

Northeast States & Eastern Canadian Provinces Mercury Study, A Framework for Action
NESCAUM/NEWMOA/NEIWPCC. 1998. Presents the results of an analysis of mercury emissions and deposition. To obtain a copy of the report, contact the NEWMOA office.

For more information about NEWMOA's mercury projects, contact Adam Wienert at .