Recycling Program for Thermostat Mercury.The Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC TRC Noun (in South Africa) Truth and Reconciliation Commission: a commission which encourages people who committed human rights abuses or acts of terror during the apartheid era to reveal the truth about their crimes in return for immunity from prosecution ) has expanded its recycling of used mercury-switch thermostats. The program is now available in 22 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . Under this voluntary, industry-sponsored effort, heating and cooling contractors drop off old mercury-switch thermostats--no matter what brand--at participating wholesalers. The wholesalers collect the thermostats in protective bins supplied by TRC. When the bins are full, they are sent to TRC's recycling center, where the switches are removed and forwarded to a mercury recycler. TRC focuses on heating and air-conditioning contractors and wholesalers because they sell and install the majority of thermostats and because the industry already has the infrastructure to support an effective recycling program. Only a small percentage of replacement thermostats are installed by homeowners themselves. TRC's mercury-recycling program is available in the following jurisdictions: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). , New Jersey, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. , Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. |
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