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| Title: | View of DSNY's New CFC Van |
| Keywords: | On the Job, work
Building/Facility - garage
waste disposal
CFC removal |
| Issue Date: | 15-Oct-2007 |
| Abstract: | A digital image from the DSNY's 2006 Annual Report. View of new CFC van. |
| Description: | Some information about this van can be found on the 2006 DSNY annual
report: "As part of a program to reduce the atmospheric release of
Freon, Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gases are collected from appliances,
such as refrigerators and air conditioners. The Department has a fleet
of CFC vans, which collect CFC gases for recycling. The CFC vans
utilize a power inverter to power a pump that transfers the gases from
the appliance to a holding tank on the vehicle. These specialized
vehicles are not commercially available; they were designed and built as
a joint venture through the efforts of BME, BBM and BCC. A call placed
to the City’s 311 information line initiates the dispatch of a CFC
van, which must purge the appliance’s gases before they will be
picked up. More than 140,000 such appointments are completed
annually." ("Bureau of Motor Equipment," in DSNY Annual
Report 2006, ed., Turso, Vito A. Distributed by the City of New York in
2007, p. 39) This image was culled from a disk of unused DSNY 2006
Annual Report Images. It was originally a jpeg. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/23676 |
| Appears in Collections: | NYU-New York Department of Sanitation Museum Project
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