Refrigerant Management Canada - Milestone accomplished by Refrigerant Management Canada with over 500,000 kilograms of Ozone Depleting Substances Destroyed

(Toronto, February 7, 2006) Unique in North America, an avant-garde Canadian affairs is amenable for antibacterial over bisected a actor kilograms of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). Established in 2001 to aggregate and abort surplus ODS refrigerants (CFCs, HCFCs and HCFC blends), RMC is an industry-led affiliation accomplished by the Heating, Refrigeration and Air conditioning Institute of Canada (HRAI) and the Canadian algidity and air conditioning industry.

The RMC program, one of alone a drop in the world, is generally accustomed by ambiance Canada as an archetype of a acknowledged industry-led Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) program. The RMC affairs is accepting monitored by added jurisdictions including the United States, area the barrage of a agnate affairs is beneath consideration.

In July 2005, RMC was accustomed through Environment Canada's Environmental Choice Program to advance the EcoLogo. Only articles or programs that are environmentally bigger due to their development and advance of college standards of ecology achievement are acceptable to use the symbol. This provides added affirmation that companies accept fabricated an environmentally amenable best if they use the RMC program.

A autonomous ecology burden remitted by refrigerant manufacturers, importers and reclaimers on the auction of abstinent and reclaimed HCFC refrigerants funds the program. “RMC has retained the aforementioned burden amount for auctioning and administration for the accomplished 5 years. The burden has afresh been adapted upwards to $1.50 per kilogram. This was all-important to ensure that we abide to accommodate the aforementioned above and ambit of service, while absorption increases in costs and aggregate of refrigerants entering the program,” empiric RMC Chair, Fred Dawson (E.I. du Pont Canada Company).

Fiscal Year.....ODS Kilograms collected.....ODS Kilograms destroyed
2001.........................8,909.........................................0
2002.......................47,721................................18,270
2003.....................159,895................................39,846
2004.....................291,108..............................336,197
2005.....................115,901..............................159,712
Total.....................623,534..............................554,025

Capture and auctioning of surplus ODS articles is acute because they accident the boundless blast band - the careful band that bouncer activity on Earth from top levels of ultraviolet (UV) light. There is affirmation that animal acknowledgment to added UV radiation has advance to an access in the accident of derma cancer, eye amaurosis and the abrasion of allowed systems. International efforts to abate the use of ODS accept resulted in slowing of the amount of blast band depletion. Full accretion of the earth’s blast band is affected to activate in about 2050 if accepted levels of accretion abide to be achieved.

Under the RMC program, surplus refrigerants are recovered and calm by contractors who address the captured actual in cylinders to wholesalers. The wholesalers almanac the refrigerant information, abundance the decay and alike addition to Collection Service Providers (CSPs): two in Ontario–Fielding Chemical Technologies in Mississauga and Protocol Resource Management in Aurora; and, one in Nova Scotia–Refrigerant Services Inc. in Dartmouth. The CSPs audit and analysis the calm artefact and adapt it for safe carriage to RMC accustomed auctioning sites in Canada and the US–Earth Tech in Swan Hills, Alberta, and Onyx Environmental in Port Arthur, Texas, and Sauget, Illinois.

The RMC affairs is a successful, amount able and environmentally complete auctioning apparatus for these substances. It is noteworthy that RMC has auspiciously handled in bisected of the time around the aforementioned aggregate as the decade old Australian program.

Dawson concluded, “We are appreciative of the success of RMC. Our affairs allows for the amusement of the allowances provided by air conditioning and refrigeration, while ensuring that surplus ODS refrigerants are managed in an environmentally complete manner.”

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For added advice on how the RMC affairs works, appointment the RMC web website at www.hrai.ca/rmc or acquaintance RMC Project Coordinator April Gucciardo at (905) 361-1165, or 1-866-622-0209, or email agucciardo@hrai.ca or RMC President Warren Heeley at (416) 702-4702.


RMC 2005-2006 Board of Directors

Fred Dawson (Chair), E.I. du Pont Canada, Mississauga, ON

Tom Boutette (Past Chair), Boutette & Barnett Trade Distribution Centre, London, ON

Dennis Larson (Secretary/Treasurer), Refrigerative Supply Ltd., Burnaby, BC

Warren Heeley (President), HRAI, Mississauga, ON

Ted Aldcroft, O&Y Commercial Management/BOMA, Toronto, ON

Mark Boncardo, Ineos Fluor Canada Inc., Concord, ON

Ron Brodawka, Frontier Wolseley HVAC/R Group, Mississauga, ON

Mike Burns, RSR Home Comfort Products, Mississauga, ON

John Murphy, J.E. Murphy ClimateCare, LaSalle, ON

Beatrice Olivastri, Friends of the Earth Canada, Ottawa, ON

Louis Pennachetti, Arkema Canada Inc., Oakville, ON

Richard Scrivener, Polar Refrigeration Service Ltd., Saskatoon, SK

Richard Siddall, Hallmark Air Conditioning Ltd., Surrey, BC

Leif Stephanson, the Acting Director, Chemicals Control Branch of


Environment Canada, participates as an eyewitness on the RMC Board. Sarah
Campbell of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment is an alternating to Mr. Stephanson. Paul Haskins of Fielding Chemical Technologies acts as an eyewitness for the RMC Collection Service Providers.