With a mercury switch, as the temperature in the room changes, the coil expands or contracts, tilting a glass bulb with mercury inside.

First, remove the thermostat cover and make sure the subbase is mounted level on the wall. If its not, the mercury switch inside wont work properly, which can affect the accuracy of the ...

PAOLI, Pennsylvania, December 18, 2008 (ENS) – That thermostat on the wall that allows residents to control the temperature of their rooms contains the deadly neurotoxin mercury. But fewer ...

Some of the most common thermostats with mercury are the older, round-dial models. The mercury is used in a switch that activates a furnace or air conditioner.

Some of you have an old-fashioned thermostat with a mercury switch, a mechanical device that relies on a coil of metal that miraculously expands and contracts depending on the temperature in the room.

The mercury-switch thermostat recycling program was originally available only to hvacr contractors in nine states — Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, and ...

The Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation along with the Thermostat Recycling Corporation is sending a friendly reminder to Vermonters—don’t trash it, cash it.

NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Thermostat Recycling Corp. collected 3% more pounds of mercury from thermostats in 2019, when compared with its efforts in 2018. There were 160,735 ...

TRC assumes all costs to transport and properly dispose of mercury switch thermostats recovered from service. To learn more about TRC, visit www.thermostat-recycle.org.