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EPA reports progress on mercury switch removal.(SCRAP INDUSTRY NEWS)
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Recycling Today
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November 1, 2007
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports more than 635,000 mercury switches representing 1,400 pounds of mercury have been removed during the first year of its voluntary national program to remove the devices from vehicles.
Last August, the EPA, the American Iron and Steel Institute, the Steel Manufacturers Association, the Automotive Recyclers Association, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries Inc., the End of Life Vehicles Corp., Environmental Defense, the Ecology Center and the Environmental Council of the States launched the mercury switch removal ...