Here’s an interesting milestone. Washington’s Department of Ecology recently collected its 200,000th automobile switch containing mercury. That represents 445 pounds of mercury that did not end up in ...

Maine has rescued at least 16,896 mercury switches from junked cars since the state approved the nation's first mandatory switch recycling program two years ago, according to a study released Monday ...

A bill that imposes a fee for the removal of mercury switches in automobiles in the state of Indiana was passed by the state Senate last week. House Bill 1110 requires manufacturers of motor vehicles ...

Hoping to reduce harmful mercury emissions, the Environmental Protection Agency, the auto industry and environmental groups said Wednesday they have agreed to start a national program to collect ...

Scottsdale, Ariz. — NKK Switches offers a new combination tilt/sensor switch that is designed to replace mercury and pendulum switches. The DS series of through-hole, PC-board mounted devices is said ...

Their operating principle Tilting the device past a threshold causes the conductive mercury to bridge between two conductors, thus making a connection. An international push to eliminate heavy metals ...

For years, mercury has been used to make the switches for the lights in trunks and hoods of cars. Noah Adams talks with Michael Bender, executive director of the Mercury Policy Project, a non-profit ...