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The GreenChill Partnership

What is the EPA GreenChill Partnership? GreenChill Partners GreenChill is an EPA partnership with food retailers to reduce Food Retailers refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer and climate change. Bel Air BJ’s Wholesale Club Mariano’s Fresh Market The 2010 phaseout of certain hydrochlorofluorocarbons Brookshire Grocery McQuade’s Marketplace (HCFCs), especially HCFC-22, marked a major step in the Company transition to alternative refrigerants and an opportunity Buehler’s Fresh Foods Metro Market to use improved technologies for . Because City Market, Onion River many alternative refrigerants are greenhouse gases Co-op Nob Hill (e.g., hydrofluorocarbons – HFCs), it is important during this Coborn’s Inc. PCC Community Markets transition to consider reducing emissions of all refrigerants, Cook County Whole Foods Pick ‘n Save not just ozone-depleting substances. Co-Op Port Townsend Food Co-op Copps Food Center Price Chopper Super Markets What are the GreenChill Partnership Raley’s Goals? Farm Fresh Food and Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. The goals of the GreenChill Partnership are to provide Shop ‘n Save supermarkets and other industry stakeholders with Food Source Shoppers Food & Pharmacy information and assistance to: • Transition to environmentally friendlier refrigerants; Hannaford Stater Bros. Market Hanover Co-op Food Stores SUPERVALU • Reduce the amount of refrigerant used by stores and Target eliminate leaks; and H-E-B • Adopt green refrigeration technologies and Hornbacher’s environmental best practices. Hy-Vee Wild by Nature

Advanced Refrigeration Technology Manufacturers Who can Join GreenChill? Carnot Refrigeration Kysor/Warren GreenChill is a partnership with food retailers, including Hillphoenix Systemes LMP supermarkets, grocery stores, supercenters, and wholesale Hussmann Zero Zone clubs. Food retailers sign a Partnership Agreement with EPA and agree to work toward attaining the GreenChill goals. Chemical Manufacturers Arkema ICOR International Dow Chemical Mexichem Fluor DuPont National Refrigerants Honeywell Why Join the GreenChill Partnership? The majority of the approximately 36,000 supermarkets in the U.S. use HCFC-22, an ozone-depleting substance and greenhouse gas, as their primary refrigerant. Further, supermarkets often have high refrigerant leak rates. Leaks are harmful to the environment and costly to supermarkets. However, ozone-friendly alternative refrigerants and improved technology are available, and servicing practices exist that reduce refrigerant leak rates and emissions. In addition, under the current regulatory framework, a switch from ozone-depleting to non-ozone-depleting refrigerants is a logical consideration when remodeling or constructing a new store. While it is legal to run installed HCFC-22 equipment indefinitely, refrigerant production for servicing that equipment will stop by 2020. The GreenChill Partnership presents an opportunity to prepare for this and other deadlines, prepare for future leak repair regulations, and to be recognized for efforts above and beyond actions required under the Clean Air Act. Benefits of the GreenChill Partnership include:

Environmental The Partnership helps the environment Benefits of the GreenChill benefits by decreasing the impact of Partnership refrigeration systems on the ozone layer and GreenChill Partners in the food climate change. business have refrigerant emissions rates nearly 50% lower than the Benchmarking A benchmarking system allows Partners to EPA- estimated industry average. evaluate their progress toward environmental goals in relation to their peers. If supermarkets nationwide reduced emissions to the current GreenChill Recognition and Awards are given by EPA to recognize Partner average, they could generate awards outstanding achievements by Partners. annual cost savings of over $100 million across the industry, while preventing Publicity, marketing, Partners have access to a variety of marketing the annual emission of 27 million metric and outreach materials to highlight their participation in the tons of carbon dioxide equivalent GreenChill Partnership. and 230 ozone depletion potential Assistance with GreenChill assists Partners in developing (ODP) tons. environmental and attaining corporate environmental strategies and goals stewardship and sustainability goals, with tools such as best practice guidelines and information on improved technology and servicing practices that help reduce refrigerant For more information, visit our website charges and leak rates. at http://www.epa.gov/greenchill Opportunities for GreenChill holds regular meetings to facilitate information sharing Partner information sharing on successful Please contact: among Partners emissions reduction strategies and advances in [email protected], or Kirsten Cappel refrigeration technology. at (202) 343-9556 Research Partners have access to state-of-the-art EPA research and EPA/industry field tests on substitute refrigerants and advanced refrigeration technologies.