Company develops circuit board recycling system.Northeast Surplus & Materials LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , Syracuse, N.Y., has developed a new circuit board recycling system. According to a press release, the patent-pending system "efficiently and safely recovers reusable parts and metals from discarded circuit boards." Jim Moltion, president of Northeast, says the "depopulator de·pop·u·late tr.v. de·pop·u·lat·ed, de·pop·u·lat·ing, de·pop·u·lates To reduce sharply the population of, as by disease, war, or forcible relocation. " system removes more than 300,000 parts during a normal 40-hour workweek using one operator. He adds that the system uses little energy and leaves virtually nothing to landfills. Some electronics recyclers take a more labor-intensive approach, using hotplates and hair dryers to separate these parts, Moltion says. "That's an expensive, messy process that unnecessarily exposes workers to toxic fumes fumes odorous gases and other volatile materials; inhalation of irritating fumes causes coughing and, if sufficiently severe, irreversible pulmonary edema. ." The development of the system was made possible through the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Energy Resource Development Authority (NYSERDA NYSERDA New York State Energy Research and Development Authority ) in 2000 as part of its Environmental Products Development Program, which assists in the development of products and systems designed to treat, process or reuse waste products using less energy in the process. NYSERDA provided funding in the amount of more than $230,000, with the overall project cost totaling more than $460,000. |
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