The Indiana Department of Environmental Management, working with the Regional Household Hazardous Waste Task Force and a network of Indiana Solid Waste Management Districts, has established a Mercury Awareness Program (M.A.P.) for Indiana. The MAP serves to both educate citizens on the environmental and health-related dangers associated with mercury and to encourage the proper disposal of mercury-containing items by providing free* recycling in all 92 counties.
*Regarding the M.A.P., schools must bear 25 percent of the cost of recycling mercury, and businesses are not eligible to participate.
Through statewide exchange programs, Indiana residents have turned in over 8000 mercury thermometers since October 1998.
Much of the information available about mercury, and mercury disposal methods, on this site was gathered by the MAP initiative.
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