There are huge banks of refrigerants to properly manage in large refrigeration systems for grocery stores and in the air conditioning systems that serve large buildings. 

It is important work for people who own grocery stores and operate buildings to do good refrigerant management by using climate-friendly refrigerants, preventing leaks, and recovering refrigerants at end of life. For the rest of us, the most important thing we will ever recycle is a refrigerant-containing appliance.

When refrigerants are recovered from a typical window air conditioner before the metal is recycled, it has the same beneficial effect on greenhouse gases of recycling instead of landfilling 90 bags of waste!

When people learn how important it is to recycle a single appliance, awareness grows about the significance of properly managing the large banks of refrigerants that support our food chains and living spaces.

That’s why appliances are just the tip of the refrigerant management iceberg.