Posted on 11/16/2010 5:26:50 AM PST by EBH
Ohio Bans Mercury Button Cell Batteries
On January 1, 2011, mercury-added novelties that contain mercury button cell batteries will be banned from sale or distribution in Ohio.
Unless the mercury was in a button cell battery, mercury-added novelty items have been banned for sale or distribution in Ohio since October 6, 2007. A mercury-added novelty item is defined in Ohio Revised Code § 3734.61 as a product in which mercury is present and that is intended mainly for personal or household enjoyment or adornment. Novelty items covered by the rule include, but are not limited to: products intended for use as practical jokes, figurines, adornments, toys, games, cards, ornaments, yard statues and figures, candles, jewelry, holiday decorations, footwear, other items of apparel; or similar products. Mercury-added novelties with a fluorescent light bulb, such as hand-held video game consoles or cell phones, are not included in the rule.
You can read more about Ohio’s mercury ban rule in the Ohio School and Consumer Mercury Product Bans guidance document.
Those darn mercury batteries again.
Have they banned fun yet?
Don’t the new government mandated light bulbs contain mercury?
Well *IF* this logic is sound, they MUST also ban CFLs, the ‘saviour’ of the environment.
Trying to figure out if Ohio has managed to ban diabetic test machines ~
When I was a kid, I’d take the mercury and play with it.......These people are idiots......
Yeppers.
Compact Fluorescents do indeed contain Mercury, and WILL contaminate the environment when disposed of in household trash, or fractured in use.
from the new code of the law
““Mercury-added novelty” does not include a product that solely includes a fluorescent light bulb.”
because mercury is bad...um...good...umm....bad....ummmm
The code also bans mercury thermometers.
Ban them, that would be a great way to take on the stupidity of the Feds.
How about rectal thermometers? Old style oral thermometers? How about mercury in science class? How about we just ban O hi O.
I did not know that. It certainly puts a damper on MY plan to get rich by importing and selling "Eiffel Tower Commemorative Rectal Thermometers".
Well actually liquid Hg (and vapors thereof) IS/ARE powerful neurotoxins, and we really shouldn’t have been rolling it around in our palms (like we all did). But we know that now, not back then.
One of the worst lab ‘toys’ was DMSO - dimethylsulfoxide, a liquid/solvent that had the interesting property of being able to transport virtually ANY metal through the skin and into the tissues underneath. Folks used it to transport gold and silver through their skin. Trouble is that those of us who were lab rats in school transported a LOT of ‘bad stuff’ through our skin and lungs ‘cuz of DMSO.
OH, and then there was the benzene we used to clean glassware in the biochem labs.
sigh.
Just don’t mix the two and you’re fine under both the law and good taste.
And yet you never figured out why your nickname in school was "twitchy"? :)
The newer ones have a lot less than the first ones, but still have some.
“Have they banned fun yet?”
That bill is called the ‘comprehensive reform of accepted pleasurable pursuits (CRAPP for short).
Non sequitur. ;-)
FYI
Do you use yours for recreation or adornment? ;-)
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