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rbowman

On 08/04/2020 09:54 PM, wrote:
That is far from the largest source of mercury and I am not disposing
of "Thousands" of these things. It is more like 2 every couple of
years. I get rid of a lot more batteries and they tell us to just put
them in the trash. When I had a way of getting them to a haz mat
place, like when my wife was running a big HOA, I put them with the
hazmat. I just think driving my car 50 miles to and from the haz mat
place might be worse for the environment than a milligram or two of
mercury in the landfill.

In this area a little mercury in a landfill is small potatoes compared
to the problems caused by copper, gold, and asbestos mines. Fish &
Wildlife advise you not to eat pike out of the Clark Fork but that goes
back to the mines at Butte 100 years ago.