{"id":45883,"date":"2015-03-05T21:47:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=45883"},"modified":"2015-03-05T21:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T01:47:48","slug":"mercury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/mercury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Mercury Program thanks you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successful program<!--more--><br \/>\nMichigan: US Ecology (formerly EQ: The Environmental Quality Company (EQ)) and The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Mercury Collection Project would like to thank the residents and businesses of Michigan for recycling 665 pounds of mercury in 2014. This was a 210% increase over 2013.<br \/>\nWith the success of the program, the two organizations have joined forces again to continue the free collection program running in 2015. \u201cWe are thrilled to be part of this program, \u201csaid Judie Napier, manager of the program at US Ecology, \u201cWe had such a great turnout last year and we hope to double our intake this year.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 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, 2015. This is an on-going effort to collect and properly recycle mercury. US Ecology will ensure proper recycling methods which will reduce the amount of mercury from entering our environment.<br \/>\nIn 2014 US Ecology 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, US Ecology received double the requests from 2013 to include 386 bucket requests. The program recycled 347 hydrometers, 25 barometers, 1,318 industrial switches and fuses, 594 thermostats, 584 relay switches\/gauges, 13 medical devices, 2 manometers, 134 lab thermometers, and 462 thermometers.<br \/>\nThe program is easy. Upon request, US Ecology 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 US Ecology.<br \/>\nInterested parties should call or email US Ecology for a free collection container 877-960-2025 or <a href=\"mailto:mercurybucket@usecology.com\">mercurybucket@usecology.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nMore information on the Mercury Collection Program can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/greatlakesrestoration.us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/greatlakesrestoration.us\/<\/a> or the US Ecology website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usecology.com\/Services\/EnvironmentalServices\/Recycling\/MercuryCollectionProgram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.usecology.com\/Services\/EnvironmentalServices\/Recycling\/MercuryCollectionProgram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful program<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}