There's enough mercury in this one little switch to contaminate a 20 acre lake!
For a period of time, manufacturers used mercury switches like this to control convenience lights and ABS systems. Although they are no longer being installed in new vehicles, there are about 9 tonnes of mercury switches still in vehicles on the road today. Switch Out is a national program designed to remove these switches from end-of-life vehicles and prevent the highly toxic heavy metal from being released into the environment.

ARC is proud to have been a pioneering partner in the Switch Out program since its inception. Our members have recovered thousands of these switches before they could do harm to our lakes and rivers.



To find out more about Switch Out, go here.

 

 
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