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Mercury: Spills, Disposal and Site Cleanup
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Information about how to cleanup mercury spills in the home and at hazardous waste sites. Includes discussions of what to do if compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) and mercury thermometers break, how to store and transport mercury, and background about ...
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http://www.epa.gov/mercury/spills/ |
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Safe Mercury Management
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This site provides "information about the treatment, disposal, and management of mercury and mercury wastes." Presents detailed information about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Safe Mercury Management Program (SMMP); state progr ...
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http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/tsd/mercury/index.htm |
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Faroe Islands: Message From the Sea
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Companion website to a 2007 PBS Frontline World program about a "landmark 20-year study of Faroese children [that] has found that high levels of methyl mercury and other contaminants in the whale meat are harmful to a child's neurological develo ...
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http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/faroe605/ |
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Tuna Calculator
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"How much tuna can you eat safely? ... This site uses the FDA's own scientific guidelines for what constitutes a safe dose of mercury to calculate the maximum amount of tuna you can safely eat each week and not exceed what the FDA considers ...
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http://www.ewg.org/tunacalculator |
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CFLs -- Don???t Throw Them Away!
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"Replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) is a great way to reduce electrical use ... but throwing them away in your regular trash can lead to soil and water pollution because CFLs contain small amounts of mercury. ...
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http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/energy/consumers/080210_cfls.htm |
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Maine Compact Fluorescent Lamp Breakage Study Report
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Summary and full text of a February 2008 report that considers potential cleanup concerns when "compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) were broken in a small/moderate sized room." Includes detailed description of the testing process and clean ...
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http://maine.gov/dep/rwm/homeowner/cflreport.htm |
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Dental Board of California: Dental Materials Fact Sheet
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This site features a fact sheet (also available in Spanish and Mandarin) that describes the advantages and disadvantages of various types of dental materials. Materials include porcelain (ceramic), nickel or cobalt-chrome alloys, glass and resin iono ...
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http://www.dbc.ca.gov/formspubs/pub_dmfs2004.pdf |
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The International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology (IAOMT)
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The site features articles about the health risks of amalgam fillings (which contain mercury), and a database of non-mercury-using dentists in the U.S. and Canada. Also includes a position statement about fluoridation. From "a membership organiz ...
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http://www.iaomt.org |
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The Environmental Council of the States
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A "national non-profit, non-partisan association of state and territorial environmental agency leaders" formed "to improve the capability of state environmental agencies and their leaders to protect and improve human health and the environment." Site ...
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http://www.ecos.org/ |
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The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
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A multimedia tour of the solar system. Contains photos, information and data for not only the planets, but their moons and other astronomical bodies, such as comets and asteroids.
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http://www.nineplanets.org/ |
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