Switches using mercury can be replaced free.Byline: The Register-Guard Lane County drivers can help prevent toxic mercury pollution by taking their car to any of 18 local auto repair shops and having the mercury lighting switch under their hood or trunk removed for free. The program's sponsors hope to replace 10,000 mercury switches A mercury switch is a switch whose purpose is to allow or interrupt the flow of electric current in an electrical circuit in a manner that is dependent on the switch's physical position or alignment relative to the direction of the "pull" of earth's gravity. . For no charge, the mercury switches will be replaced with a ball-bearing switch. For years, automakers have used a mercury lighting switch under the hood under the hood - [hot-rodder talk] 1. The underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it. and trunk of cars. When junked cars are crushed and melted to recycle re·cy·cle tr.v. re·cy·cled, re·cy·cling, re·cy·cles 1. To put or pass through a cycle again, as for further treatment. 2. To start a different cycle in. 3. a. steel, the mercury is released into the environment. Mercury in a single switch can contaminate con·tam·i·nate v. 1. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture. 2. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity. con·tam·i·nant n. a 20-acre lake, making the fish in it unsafe to eat. In humans and wildlife, mercury damages the nervous system. Participating shops in Eugene, Springfield and Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). are available online at www.aboutnata.org or by calling (503) 253-9898. The new service is available through a cooperative effort of the Northwest Automotive Trades Association, Oregon Environmental Council, state Department of Environmental Quality and Lane County Waste Management Division. |
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