Remember asbestos? They put it in everything when I was a child. I remember being told in school have safe it was because it was permeated with asbestos - the floors, the ceilings.
Just watch. In 20 or so years all of a sudden it’s going to become a huge environmental emergency (all that Hg) and the scam artists that live off the government will suddenly start up all these “Toxic metal removal” companies. And get money from the public purse to do it.
Al Gore’s next scam.
Each lab station in my high school science classroom had a plastic bottle full of mercury. I don't remember what science projects the mercury was for, but we enjoyed rolling it around in our palms. Somehow we've all reached our late 40s apparently unscathed.
They are doing that right now!. A few years ago, somebody broke a thermometer in a street in a residential neighborhood. The street was shut down for a couple of days while two or three guys in moon suits cleaned it up. Just a hunch, but I think it highly probable the moon suit guys were getting paid minimum wage and the city was getting charged plenty (100$/hr, more?).