Runs through September 30, 2014
The Great Lakes Mercury Collection Program is providing free mercury collection services to residents and business in the State of Michigan. The free program will run through September 30, 2014. This is an on-going effort to collect and properly recycle mercury. EQ will ensure proper recycling methods which will reduce the amount of mercury from entering our environment.
In 2013, EQ worked with The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for the Great Lakes Restoration and set up a designated phone number and e-mail address that were specifically designed for all requests received for this program. During this period, EQ received 164 bucket requests and recycled 325 thermometers, 145 thermostats, 520 industrial switches and fuses, and various relay switches and gauges, lab thermometers, manometers and hydrometers.
The program is easy. Upon request, EQ will send a free collection bucket with a shipping box to your door via common carrier. Each bucket contains easy-to-follow return instructions. Once the bucket is filled with the mercury containing device(s) it can safely be returned in the shipping box to EQ.
Interested parties should call or email EQ for a free collection container 877-960-2025 or email mercurybucket@eqonline.com.
More information on the Mercury Collection Program can be found at http://greatlakesrestoration.us/ or the EQ website at www.eqonline.com.