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Home arrow News arrow Clean Air Foundation Wins Environmental Health Award
Clean Air Foundation Wins Environmental Health Award Print E-mail
Written by CRM News   
Tuesday, 03 June 2008

Image  TORONTO, ON – June 3, 2008 -- The Clean Air Foundation has been awarded the silver Environmental Health Award for its highly successful mercury collection programs - Switch Out and Switch the 'Stat.

 The honor was presented to the organization last night at the Canadian Environment Awards, which recognizes individuals and groups of Canadians who have made outstanding contributions to the protection, restoration and preservation of the Canadian environment.

"This award is a testament to the dedication of our team and partners," said Ersilia Serafini, Executive Director of the Clean Air Foundation. "We are committed to building on the success of both programs and delivering even greater results as we expand the Switch the 'Stat program beyond Ontario and take the Switch Out program national this year."

Switch Out is the first program in Canada to address the use of mercury in vehicles and mercury emissions from vehicle recycling. The program works to recover mercury from vehicles before they are recycled to prevent its release into the environment. Since 2001, the program has collected more than 189,000 switches from end-of-life vehicles, saving 160 kilograms of mercury from being leaked into the environment.

Created in April 2006, Switch the 'Stat encourages the installation of energy-efficient programmable thermostats and responsibly recovers older mercury-containing thermostats. To date, this program has collected more than 10,600 switches from thermostats, thereby recovering more than 27 kilograms of mercury.

Since 2001, Switch Out and Switch the 'Stat have recovered almost 200,000 mercury-containing switches and ensured that more than 185 kilograms of mercury have not been released into the environment.

The Clean Air Foundation is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing, implementing and managing public engagement programs and strategic approaches leading to measurable emissions reductions, air quality improvement and climate protection.

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