Arctic Mercury Releases Inventory

Arctic Mercury Releases Inventory

Table 3-6 Reported mercury inputs and outputs to all media in Denmark, 2001; metric tons mercury/year. For details on estimation and uncertainties, see the questionnaire response in the appendix.

	New inputs to biosphere:		Reported releases/outputs to (means of ranges):
Means and sums are rounded	Range	Mean	Air	Water	Soil	Mu- nicipal waste	Haz /Med waste	Sector waste deposit *1	Waste water system	By- products	Sum, rep. releases (means)
Mobilisation of mercury impurities
Large coal combustion plants	0.6-1	0.8	0.3	0	0	0	0	0.1	0	0.3	0.7
Other coal combustion and use		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Extraction and use of oil, gas and biofuels	0.06-0.33	0.2	0.06	0.06	0.003	0.006	0	0.01	0.002	0	0.1
Cement production	0.1-0.3	0.2	0.1	0	0	0	0	0.03	0	0.09	0.2
Other primary extraction and processing of materials	0.011-0.04	0.03	0	0	0.03	0	0	0	0	0	0.03
Sub-sum, mobilisation of mercury impurities		1.2	0.4	0.06	0.03	0.006	0	0.2	0.002	0.4	1.1
Intentional mercury use
Dental amalgam fillings	1.1-1.3	1.2	0.2	0	0.07	0.1	1.2	0	0.2	NR	1.8
Batteries	0.07-0.15	0.1	0	0	0	0.4	0.4	0	0	NR	0.8
Thermometers	0.016-0.024	0.02	0	0	0	0.03	0.1	0	0.03	NR	0.2
Manometers, blood pressure gauges and education	0.013-0.049	0.03	0.04	0	0	0.04	0.3	0	0.04	NR	0.4
Switches, relays and contacts	0-0.024	0.01	0	0	0	0.2	1.1	0	0	NR	1.3
Light sources	0.06-0.17	0.1	0.005	0	0	0.07	0.07	0	0	NR	0.1
Other products and processes	0.135-2.021	1.1	0	0	0	0.4	0.05	0.03	0.01	NR	0.5
Sub-sum, intentional mercury use		2.6	0.2	0	0.07	1.3	3.2	0.03	0.2	0	5.1
Waste treatment and waste water systems
Incineration of general/municipal waste	NR	NR	0.6	0	0	0	0	2.5	0	NR	3.1
Incineration of hazardous/medical waste	NR	NR	0.008	0.001	0	0	NR	0	0	NR	0.009
Landfills/deposits *3	NR	NR	NA	0	0	0.08	0	2.8	0.003	NR	2.9
Waste water systems	NR	NR	0.04	0.2	0.08	0	0	0.06	NR	NR	0.4
Recycling of other materials	NR	NR	0.04	0	0.04	0.005	0	0.2	0	0.9	1.2
Other waste treatment	NR	NR	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
*Sub-sum, waste treatment and waste water systems 2**			0.71	0.20	0.12	0.085	0.0	5.5	0.003	0.9

Notes to table 3-6: *1: Sector specific waste deposits, is an "other controlled deposition" category, including for example special deposits for coal combustion residues in some countries and industry's own deposits (subject to authorities control). *2: Note that doubling counting can not be ruled out in overall sums for waste treatment - depends on national practices and how data were reported in questionnaire responses. Therefore, these sums were not included in the table. *3: The output figures from landfills/deposits to municipal waste and hazardous/medical waste describe the distribution on these two deposit types, and not mercury being physically moved from deposits to municipal or hazardous wastes.