Silver recovery can occasionally be a really intensive process as far as time and and manpower to move the canisters which can weigh 60 pounds or more when they are filled with silver. But fortunately based on our workload for processing missions, we normally only have to change out our canisters and actually go through that physical labor process on a monthly basis and then we only have to take the product after it's dried completely in the canister resulting in just the filter and silver being within those containers to give them to the big Air Force once every quarter or so.
Silver Recovery is a huge responsibility and I would say that to train somebody into it as long as they are dedicated shouldn't really take all that long but...
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