The Greenchill Partnership

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 ACME Markets Jewel-Osco layer and climate change. Albertsons Intermountain King Kullen West Lucky/Albertsons The 2010 phaseout of certain hydrochlorofluorocarbons Bel Air Markets Southern California (HCFCs), especially HCFC-22, marked a major step in the BJ’s Wholesale Club McQuade’s Marketplace transition to alternative refrigerants and an opportunity Bottom Dollar Meijer to use improved technologies for supermarkets. Because Brookshire Grocery Nob Hill Foods many alternative refrigerants are greenhouse gases (e.g., Company Price Chopper hydrofluorocarbons – HFCs), it is important during this Buehler’s Fresh Foods Publix Super Markets transition to consider reducing emissions of all refrigerants, Cub Foods Raley’s not just ozone-depleting substances. Dorothy Lane Market Reid’s Down to Earth Shaw’s/Star Market Farm Fresh Food & What are the GreenChill Partnership Pharmacy Shop ‘n Save, St. Louis Goals? Shoppers Food & Food Lion Pharmacy The goals of the GreenChill Partnership are to provide Food Source Sprouts Farmers Market supermarkets and other industry stakeholders with Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market Stater Bros. information and assistance to: Supermarkets Giant Eagle SUPERVALU • Transition to environmentally friendlier refrigerants; Hannaford Sweetbay Hanover Co-op Food Target • Reduce the amount of refrigerant used by stores and Stores eliminate leaks; and Harris Teeter Weis Markets Harveys Whole Foods Market • Adopt green refrigeration technologies and Hornbacher’s Wild by Nature environmental best practices. Hy-Vee Advanced Refrigeration Technology Manufacturers Who can Join GreenChill? Dow Chemical Kysor/Warren GreenChill is a partnership with food retailers, including Hillphoenix Zero Zone supermarkets, grocery stores, supercenters, and wholesale Hussmann clubs. Food retailers sign a Partnership Agreement with EPA Chemical Manufacturers and agree to work toward attaining the GreenChill goals. Arkema ICOR International ARNEG 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 supermarket Partnership refrigeration systems on the ozone layer and GreenChill Partners in the food retail 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 Recognition and Awards are given by EPA to recognize GreenChill Partner average, they awards outstanding achievements by Partners. could generate annual cost savings of over $100 million across the Publicity, marketing, Partners have access to a variety of marketing industry, while preventing the and outreach materials to highlight their participation in the annual emission of 27 million metric GreenChill Partnership. tons of carbon dioxide equivalent Assistance with GreenChill assists Partners in developing and 230 ozone depletion potential environmental and attaining corporate environmental (ODP) tons. 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 charges and leak rates. website at www2.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 Tom Land refrigeration technology. at (202) 343-9185 Research Partners have access to state-of-the-art EPA research and EPA/industry field tests on substitute refrigerants and advanced refrigeration technologies..

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