MINNEAPOLIS — Honeywell is partnering with distributors and contractors to collect thermostats nationwide to support the Thermostat Recycling Corp.’s (TRC) efforts to recover and properly dispose of ...

FORT WASHINGTON, Pa. — Thermostat Recycling Corp., (TRC) will celebrate its 20 th anniversary Oct. 24. The original founders — Honeywell, White-Rogers, and General Electric — created TRC through ...

The manufacturers of now-banned mercury thermostats should be responsible for their safe disposal because some of the devices have ended up in incinerators that have spewed mercury into the air, an ...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:21:26 GMT — Health and environmental groups are calling on state lawmakers to enact mercury thermostat collection legislation. The groups released a report yesterday showing that ...

ARLINGTON, VA—The Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) today released its 2011/2012 progress report, showing that it has recovered nearly six tons of mercury since it began national operations in ...

PAOLI, Pennsylvania, December 18, 2008 (ENS) - That thermostat on the wall that allows residents to control the temperature of their rooms contains the deadly neurotoxin mercury. But fewer ...

Mercury was stolen from six thermostats in building six of Spelman Hall this summer, in what University officials have described as an unsolved act of vandalism. "In six of the eight suites in one ...

It was a design classic, the Honeywell T-86 thermostat. Designed by Henry Dreyfuss and introduced in 1953, it's in the Smithsonian and the Cooper-Hewett exhibited it, and wrote: Its low price and ...