| Are you still using your mercury thermometer? It | | | | not healthful for small children or even adults, |
| is time to throw it away and trade it in for a | | | | either. |
| digital thermometer! Did you know that the sell of | | | | So, don't you think it is about time that you |
| mercury thermometers is now banned | | | | traded in your mercury thermometer for a digital |
| everywhere in the United States? | | | | one? Of course, you should not simply throw |
| The US Senate unanimously passed The Mercury | | | | your old thermometer out into the trash - |
| Reduction and Disposal Act of 2002. The reason | | | | because of the possible harmful effects of |
| for this ban is because of the severe | | | | mercury, you need to make sure that it is |
| environmental and physical consequences of | | | | disposed of properly. |
| mercury -- and many of us know from | | | | Mercury can be reclaimed when you take it to |
| experience how easy is to break a mercury | | | | the proper disposal place. Contact your local |
| thermometer, thereby exposing ourselves and | | | | recycling service to see where you can take your |
| the environment to mercury. | | | | old thermometers. Then go out and get yourself |
| Just one gram of mercury - the amount in a | | | | a digital thermometer or other type of |
| typical thermometer - is enough to contaminate | | | | thermometer. |
| the fish of a small lake. And mercury is certainly | | | | |