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Mercury-Schools: Background and Overview
There is an abundance of mercury sitting in schools
creating a hazardous environment for all of us.
Many high schools and middle schools have reported one or more mercury
spills involving elemental mercury, thermometers, sphygmomanometers and
barometers.
Focusing on mercury in schools can achieve all of the
following:
- Help
educate students, teachers and administrators about the health hazards and
environmental fate of mercury;
- Promote the
proper disposal management and elimination of mercury and products
containing mercury at schools;
- Promote use
of alternative products that do not contain mercury;
- Prevent
mercury spills and promote proper spill cleanup;
- Encourage
schools to take advantage of free mercury disposal programs that may be
available to them;
- Bring the
message home, so that students and their families can evaluate mercury use
in their homes and learn about less toxic alternatives.
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