Disposal Ban
- Lamps from businesses by regulation
Labeling
- Required; rules vary with regard to product, package, or product inserts; exemptions for medical equipment. Lamp wholesalers must provide information on spent lamp management
Product Ban
- Products with greater than: 1 gram of Hg as of July 1, 2004 100 mg as of July 1, 2006 NOTE: Exempts mercury –containing lamps used for backlighting that cannot feasibly by removed; specialized lighting used in the entertainment industry such as metal halide lights; high intensity discharge lamps containing more than one hundred milligrams of mercury, but less than one gram of mercury, including, but not limited to, metal halide lamps, mercury vapor lamps, mercury capillary lamps, mercury-xenon short-arc lamps and mercury short-arc lamps; and (3) on and after July 1, 2013, high intensity discharge lamps containing more than one hundred milligrams of mercury, but less than one gram of mercury, including, but not limited to, metal halide lamps, mercury vapor lamps, mercury capillary lamps, mercury-xenon short-arc lamps and mercury short-arc lamps.
- Thermometers except those with battery and
- Novelty except those with removable battery
Manufacturer Collection/Recycle
- Collection with exceptions for backlit products, lamps that have a package label referring to a website and 800 number and any other product for which the Commissioner determines collection is not feasible. Exemption for button cell batteries.
Notification
- For all mercury-containing products.
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