Release of Mercury from Broken Fluorescent Bulbs

Aucott, Michael; McLinden, Michael; Wink, Michael

doi:10.1080/10473289.2003.10466132

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“…In order to continue progress, better information is also needed on sources of mercury to improve release inventories. Of particular interest are emissions attributable to mobile sources, oil-fired boilers, releases attributable to autoclaved medical waste and direct releases attributable to broken mercury-added products, which may be significant (Aucott et al, 2003). Deposition Sources.…”

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Mercury Policy and Science in Northeastern North America: The Mercury Action Plan of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers

Smith¹,

Trip²

2005

Ecotoxicology

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In June 1998 the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers (NEG-ECP) adopted a comprehensive regional Mercury Action Plan (MAP) with aggressive emission reduction and pollution prevention goals for the New England States, the Atlantic Provinces and Quebec. New Jersey and New York have also been active participants. The NEG-ECP MAP was motivated by, and based on, extensive data demonstrating the widespread and serious nature of mercury impacts in the region and the existence of many preventable sources of mercury pollution. The plan established a long-term goal of virtually eliminating anthropogenic mercury releases in the region with interim goals of a 50% reduction by 2003 and 75% by 2010. Policy and regulatory initiatives implemented under the NEG-ECP MAP have exceeded federal efforts addressing mercury and have resulted in substantial regional progress in reducing mercury pollution. Recent data indicates that the region has reduced mercury emissions by approximately 55% since the NEGECP MAP was adopted. The NEG-ECP MAP provides an important demonstration of what can be technologically, economically and politically accomplished and has influenced mercury reduction programs at the global scale. Scientific information played important roles in developing and implementing this plan. Key research areas where regional policy makers would benefit from additional information include improved: environmental indicators for tracking progress; mercury release inventories, especially on mercury product breakage and mobile sources; deposition sources, including in-region and out-of-region contributors; elemental mercury exposure and impact data; determinants of mercury levels in fish; ecological impacts of mercury; and data on the effectiveness of outreach efforts.

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Mercury Policy and Science in Northeastern North America: The Mercury Action Plan of the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers

Smith¹,

Trip²

2005

Ecotoxicology

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“…Additionally, NEMA also estimated that mercury emissions from broken lamps were about 1% of total mercury which was much lower than that reported by EPA (1998). Aucott et al [14] studied the release of mercury from broken fluorescent bulbs. With the assumption that all mercury released as elemental vapor, it was found that between 17% and 40% of the mercury in broken low-mercury fluorescent bulbs was released to the atmosphere during a two-week period immediately after the breakage.…”

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LCA of spent fluorescent lamps in Thailand at various rates of recycling

Apisitpuvakul

Piumsomboon

Watts

et al. 2008

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…A part of the sewage sludge used as fertilizer for agriculture may later pollute surface water with mercury through run-off. Other sources of mercury emission are municipal landfill operations (Lindberg and Price, 1999;Lindberg et al, 2005), consumer products such as batteries (Lindqvist, 1995) and fluorescent light bulbs (Aucott et al, 2003), emission from soil and plant surfaces (Frescholtz and Gustin, 2004;Zhang and Lindberg, 1999), and mine wastes (Gustin et al, 2003). Some mines in USA and Canada may still be emitting mercury to the atmosphere (Lacerda, 1997).…”

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