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NY law requires collecting old thermostats
Associated Press via Fox ^ | Sunday, December 22, 2013 6:36 PM EST | Staff

Posted on 12/22/2013 5:07:31 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s

Edited on 12/22/2013 5:44:51 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a law requiring manufacturers of thermostats with mercury to collect their old temperature controls in an effort to keep mercury out of the environment.

The measure requires they establish collection programs and in 2015 start filing annual reports on collections.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; US: New York
KEYWORDS: agenda21; cuomo; mercury; nannystate; smartgrid; thermostats
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To: ChildOfThe60s

What about the planet Mercury? Shouldn’t it be destroyed? Change its name?


21 posted on 12/22/2013 5:32:49 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: Gay State Conservative

we played with a big glob in college


22 posted on 12/22/2013 5:36:02 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Do you believe the gall of these phonies. They want our old thermostats we so will buy the new ones they can control. My electric co. offered to pay for a new for me. Nice of them, but I like the one I got. I also aint got any of the new light bulbs. Will this stuff never end?

Merry Christmas!


23 posted on 12/22/2013 5:40:15 PM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman

That old mercury in thermostats is SEALED in glass.


24 posted on 12/22/2013 5:44:50 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
These liberal fascists really have no brain. Incroyable!
25 posted on 12/22/2013 5:45:45 PM PST by Fungi
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To: ChildOfThe60s

300,000 to 630,000

If you are going to guess at a number, go big. Make it 300,000,000 to 600,000,000. Oh, because then it would be easy to see you are lying to the people again.

On a side note, the left seems so concern for “the children” yet would have no trouble aborting those same 300,000 to 630,000 children


26 posted on 12/22/2013 5:48:43 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I do not doubt that our climate changes. I only doubt that anything man does has any effect.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Detergent with Phosphates ?

FYI, that has been removed because the mfg are gutless, PC and grab their ankles for whiny EnviroTards.

It is perfectly legal to buy the phosphate and add it to your dishwasher or laundry. And it does make a difference.

Here is where I buy it:

http://www.soapgoods.com/Sodium-Tripolyphosphate-Light-Density-STPP-p-1267.html

PS: The dirty little secret the EnviroTards won't talk about is that this is not the kind of phosphate that causes environmental problems like eutrophication. But the facts be damned.

27 posted on 12/22/2013 5:50:09 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

My first thought as well. The idiots worry about a tiny source of
mercury while ignoring a HUGE source because of their agenda, which has nothing to do with the environment. I suspect that the total amount of mercury vapor in all of those cfl bulbs in aggregate would be staggering if we knew.


28 posted on 12/22/2013 5:50:34 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: Nik Naym

I’ve about had it with this stupid tablet!
Sorry about the goofy line breaks.


29 posted on 12/22/2013 5:52:11 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smartass disorder.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
The mercury, extracted from thermostats seized from households (under penalty of law) will no doubt be recycled into compact fluorescents light bulbs, that the same citizens subjects, will be compelled to buy. /nearfuture
30 posted on 12/22/2013 5:54:08 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: logitech

“Sponsors say mercury exposure has been shown to impair brain development, with federal estimates suggesting 300,000 to 630,000 infants annually are born in the U.S. with mercury levels high enough to reduce intelligence.”

They should have contacted the Ultimate Data Manipulators, Jones-Hansen-Mann, who would have shown them how to present non-significant data in an apocalyptic manner. Data should have been presented as an estimated possible 30,000,000 defective infants born annually with probable autistic defects.


31 posted on 12/22/2013 5:56:05 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Some people might call it a confidence game or swindle, others call it ObamaCare!)
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To: Red Steel

“I think every kid back in the day played with mercury.”

I played with it.


32 posted on 12/22/2013 6:02:39 PM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: apoliticalone

“Kids like me used to play with mercury because it had odd characteristics. Does that explain my sometimes irrelevant posts?”

No. Playing with mercury is cool.

However, be careful of rubbing elbows with politicians who display odd characteristics. :)


33 posted on 12/22/2013 6:08:25 PM PST by logitech (It is time.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You can be sure someone related to someone in a position of power already has a business designed to capitalize on this law.


34 posted on 12/22/2013 6:09:26 PM PST by Fzob (Jesus + anything = nothing, Jesus + nothing = everything)
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To: Gay State Conservative

We dismantled my dad’s old lab equipment and amassed a film cannister of the stuff. We would play with it, throw it, lose beads in the shag carpet....I try to use it as an excuse for my behavior now.


35 posted on 12/22/2013 6:11:18 PM PST by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Fzob

Of course. They write laws to benefit themselves and their friends and allies.


36 posted on 12/22/2013 6:11:55 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

You’ll take my old mercury fever thermometer out of my cold dead hands. This is absurd, considering how many people of my generation played with mercury as kids. It’s not a good metal, but it’s not deadly in small doses, either.


37 posted on 12/22/2013 6:13:42 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ChildOfThe60s
The old thermostats can't communicate with the smart meters.
38 posted on 12/22/2013 6:21:02 PM PST by opentalk
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To: RetiredTexasVet

Maybe this explains algore. They could probably crack his noggin and mine it for enough mercury to make a bunch of squiggly bulbs.


39 posted on 12/22/2013 6:22:35 PM PST by logitech (It is time.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

They need the mercury for recycling into vaccine additives.


40 posted on 12/22/2013 6:22:38 PM PST by grumpygresh (Democrats delenda est. New US economy: Fascism on top, Socialism on the bottom.)
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