Public & Private Buildings

• Fluorescent lights and high intensity lights indoors

• High intensity lights on the grounds and in the parking lots

• Thermostats

• Thermometers

• Manometers or blood pressure cuffs

• Barometers

• Mercury convenience switches in the fleet vehicles

• Elemental mercury

• Black and neon lights used in an aquarium, or an entrance 

• Amalgam and amalgam separators

• Hospital equipment

Transportation Systems and Roads

• High intensity road lights

• Cars built before 2003 containing mercury convenience switches and mercury ABS systems

Hospitals and Health Organizations

•  Thermometers

• Manometers/Sphygmomanometers (Blood Pressure Cuffs)

• Thermostats

•  Fluorescent lights: tubes, CFLs and Rounds

Hazardous Waste Collection Facilities and Landfills

• Household hazardous waste collection facilities

• Moderate risk waste (MRW) collection facilities

• Broken and non-intact mercury-added products

• Improperly discarded  items in household recycle bins

• Areas that were landfills in the or improperly discarded items in  landfills

 Mines

• Mercury used in mining process

Resources

• Health Risks

• Sources and Causes of Contamination

• Mercury Containing Products

• Resources for Local Government

• Recycling, Disposal, and Spill Information

• Frequently Asked Questions