Regulations should be used to require Automobile Manufacturers to set up collection programs for mercury-containing components and to control the release and disposal of mercury.

Mercury Releases from Electric Arc Furnaces and from Mercury-containing components and Mercury-containing Switches in Vehicles (Archive)

A Working Document as well as the related instructions have been prepared to outline proposed pollution prevention planning requirements for mercury releases from electric arc furnaces and from mercury-containing components in vehicles manufactured, imported and domestically distributed since January 1,1994.

Pollution Prevention Planning In Respect of Mercury Releases from Electric Arc Furnaces and from Mercury-containing components and Mercury-containing Switches in Vehicles Manufactured, Imported and Domestically Distributed since January 1, 1994.

Each person identified in section 2(1) of the Notice must prepare and implement a pollution prevention plan a to achieve the removal and management of mercury-switches from end-of-life vehicles in accordance with federal, provincial/territorial, and municipal requirements and, b to eliminate the use of mercury-containing components, including mercury switches, in new vehicles.