Mercury Videos | Mercury

View a captioned version of this video, produced in 2009 by U.S. EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

To help schools safely find, manage, and dispose of their mercury, EPA, states, and local communities have developed a number of educational videos for middle- and high-school students:

Don't Mess with Mercury English version on EPA's YouTube channel; see also the embedded version at right | Spanish version (from U.S. EPA and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
Keep Your Paws Off Mercury - Clancy the mercury-detecting dog, EPA, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency teamed up to create the Keep Your Paws Off Mercury campaign to teach students across the country about mercury and its dangers. The Keep Your Paws Off Mercury video shows students where mercury can be found in schools and what to do if they see it.
- View the Windows Media Player version (13MB, 4.26 min, WMV file, download the Windows Media Player)
- View the Quicktime Player version (14MB, 4.26 min, MOV file, download the Quicktime Player)
- Related poster of Clancy, the mercury-detecting dog:
  - Print out a PDF version - to print on 8.5x11 paper, make sure you scale the page by selecting "fit to printable area" or "shrink to printable area"
  - Order copies from EPA's National Service Center for Environmental Publications. After you click on this link,
    - click on "GET A COPY" at upper right, then
    - click on the U.S. Postal Service request delivery image, then
    - check the box to the left of the name of the poster, then
    - click on "show order form".
Mission Mercury - Educational video on mercury for middle-school students created by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation along with Champlain College.

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