Legacy Environmental Svc

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About 25 years ago, we were looking at ways to reduce the mercury that was falling out of the sky and into our lakes and streams. What we found out was that batteries were contributing more than anyone else combined. The contribution from municipal solid waste was many times greater than the next biggest (coal fired plants), and batteries contributed the majority of the mercury to municipal solid waste. Battery manufacturers were using 56% of the mercury consumed by the United States. The low-hanging fruit was definitely batteries, to be followed by coal burning, and then lighting industry reduction efforts. The battery manufacturers went to work. They needed mercury (and lead) in the zinc amalgam that was used in batteries to fight galvanic corrosion. Otherwise, the battery tends to eat itself. You may be asking, "But Bob, what the heck is an amalgam?" Let's take a side route here for a minute because this is an important concept: When metal alloys include mercury, they don

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