Does US$38k to clean up a few cups of mercury seem ridiculous to anybody else?  That would be a very dangerous quantity of mercury if it were in a form like dimethylmercury, but it was metallic mercury.  Wouldn&#x27;t it make more sense to dump some powdered metal into it to amalgamate it, sweep it up and put it in a bag, and open the windows to let the house air out for a day or two?