OCEANS ALERT MERCURY ACTIONS
Oceans Alert Needs Your Participation to Stop Mercury Poisoning
Inform yourself on the health problems of Mercury.
MAD HATTERS MERCURY ALERT DAY
Oceans Alert has created an innovative initiative to educate our youth about the problem of mercury. We have created lesson plans meant to teach elementary, middle and high school students about mercury pollution.
We emphasize:
1. How mercury gets into our environment
2. How it gets from the environment into fish and people
3. What effects mercury can have on people
4. How they can be empowered to make a difference
Education is the first step towards action. Stay tuned to this page as form upcoming information about mercury awareness education.
STOPPING MERCURY-CELL CHLORINE PLANTS
OCEANS ALERT needs your support to stop needless Mercury Pollution from Mercury-Cell Chlorine Plants. We are raising funds to test workers in chlorine plants exposed to “lost” mercury. Help us raise the necessary funds and DONATE now.
Mercury pollution has been largely attributed to emissions from coal-fired power plants, but 9 chlorine plants could be responsible for more mercury pollution than all our nation’s coal-fired power plants. The organization Oceana recently released a report (this is an oceana report, do we need to ask them to link it here?) on the chlorine industry’s use of an outdated method using large amounts of mercury to make their chlorine. This is a completely unnecessary practice, more than 90% of the countries chlorine comes from non-mercury methods, but these 9 plants continue to use outdated and dirty methods.
These mercury-cell chlorine plants release more mercury per plant on average than power plants. Their reported figures of 14 tons of mercury released annually, puts these 9 chlorine plants as the 5th largest mercury polluting industry. But what is not included in that figure is the approximately 65 tons of mercury that these plants “lose” each year. In 2000, these plants consumed 79 tons of mercury, but have no viable explanation for what happens to the vast majority of it. It is “lost”. This mercury didn’t disappear, however.
Oceans Alert wants these plants to convert to mercury free technologies. Our current campaign is concerned with the workers in the plant who are exposed to this “lost” mercury. Their safety could be very much at risk. Help us raise funds for expensive mercury testing by giving HERE.