Mercury Collection Program

 

Products containing mercury are not accepted curbside for collection or for disposal at CBRM’s Waste Management Facility. Residents who have products containing mercury can bring many of these items for free to CBRM’s Residential Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Site.  The Residential Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Site address is:

 

CBRM's Residential Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Site

345 Gulf Crescent

Edwardsville, Nova Scotia

B2A 4V2

  

Accepted Mercury Containing Products

 

LIGHTING APPLIANCES THERMOSTATS OTHER
CFL's Appliance switches (e.g. chest freezers Thermostats Barometers
Fluorescent Tubes (T5, T8, T12)     Button cell batteries
     

Household thermometers

 

     

Loose liquid mercury

 

     

Medical Devices

 

      Sphygmomanometers (blood-pressure meter)