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Stop  Syracuse incinerator mercury pollution

Stop Syracuse incinerator mercury pollution

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Started by Anonymous 20 years ago
Petition to Syracuse incinerator OCRRA and Onondaga County retailers of fluorescent bulbs to offer a credit (e.g., 50 cents) for dead fluorescent bulbs with purchase of replacement bulbs; Petition to National Grid Corp. to offer a 75% discount coupon for new screw-in-base household Compact Fluorescent Bulbs to promote use of CFBs, save energy and reduce household costs; National Grid should follow the example set in Britain of Powergen Corp. utility that has a successful program for discounts on CFBs. Petition to CVS, RiteAid, Eckerds drugstores and Radio Shack to offer a 5-cent credit for dead household batteries with purchase of replacements; Petition to retailers of TVs, PCs and electronics to include a prepaid coupon/certificate to promote the recycling of toxic metals in TVs and PCs, similar to the $3 credit for printer cartridges and 50 cent credit for glass Byrne milk jugs. The Petition is aimed at retailers. suppliers and OCRRA to cooperate on reducing toxic metals in the OCRRA incineraor and landfills.. The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) already recycles toxics to Buffalo, NY, where OCRRA currently ships toxic-metal-laden TV sets, CRTs from computers and household batteries.

Updates

July 21, 2006

I have been busy reaching out to the local retailers mentioned here to see if any of them are willing to talk about these recycling credits. It is a slow process but seeing so many of you join in gives me the confidence to keep sending those emails and making those calls.

July 21, 2006

I am honestly overwhelmed by how many people have joined this effort to keep our community cleaner. This momentum belongs entirely to you because I never imagined so many people would care about these toxic metals as much as I do.

6 Comments

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Sarah Navarro
19 years ago Featured

my kids breathe this air in syracuse every single day. please fix this before it gets even worse.

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Mike Stokes
19 years ago Featured

its common sense. stop dumping this stuff in our air and start giving us a reason to bring it back to the store. really not that hard.

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Dave Vogel
19 years ago Featured

OCRRA needs to step up. we should be incentivizing recycling instead of making people pay to do the right thing with their old bulbs and batteries.

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Kevin Young
20 years ago Featured

need more programs like this. i have a box of old batteries sitting in my garage because i dont know what to do with them. this would help tons.

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Linda Anderson
20 years ago Featured

RIDICULOUS that we still have this problem. make the retailers take responsibility for the trash they sell us. period.

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Jen Porter
20 years ago Featured

mercury in the air is no joke. keep it out of the incinerator!

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