Managing Refrigerants in a New Regulatory Environment

1. Managing Refrigerants in a New Regulatory Environment

2. Preliminaries… • Do you have an existing environmental responsibility program? • Are your used refrigerants included in your environmental responsibility program? • Do you use an independent mechanical contractor to perform routine and scheduled maintenance on your chiller or cooling equipment? • Do you know where your contractor purchases the refrigerants to put into your system AND do you know what happens to those refrigerants when they are taken out of your systems? • Did you know that it is possible to track your refrigerants’ carbon footprint? • Did you know that your used refrigerant can be recycled and recertified for your continued use or less money than buying newly manufactured refrigerant?

3. The Regulatory Paradigm Shift November 15, 1995: The Clean Air Act (Section 608)

4. 15 Years Later

8. Who’s Going to Pay?

9. Enter California

10. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration

11. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring

12. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring • Annual reporting

13. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring • Annual reporting • Management Accountability

14. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring • Annual reporting • Management Accountability • Refrigerant Tracking

15. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring • Annual reporting • Management accountability • Refrigerant tracking • Lower leak maximum rates

16. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring • Annual reporting • Management accountability • Refrigerant tracking • Lower leak maximum rates • Recycled refrigerants

17. Aggressive Compliance & Reporting • System registration • Leak rate monitoring • Annual reporting • Management accountability • Refrigerant tracking • Lower leak maximum rates • Recycled refrigerants • Only EPA-certified technicians

18. Nationwide Initiatives

19. Western Climate Initiative

21. Federal Program 2012?

22. What About Now?

23. Corporate Social Responsibility CSR policy functions as a built-in, self-regulating mechanism whereby business monitors and ensures its active compliance with the spirit of the law, ethical standards, and international norms.

24. Shameless Self Promotion • Refrigerant reclaim and refrigerant management solutions provider • Responsible Recovery Program

25. Asset Management =

26. What’s In it for me?

27. If you are a distributor…

28. If you are a distributor… • Lower cost refrigerant product line • Increase Sales • Environmental benefits • Product leverage for customers • Accountability

29. If you are a contractor… • Enhance environmental stewardship programs • Accountability solutions • Margin & price management

30. If you are a system owner… • Quantifiable data • Manage cost • Lower risk on Carbon accountability • No cost increased and enhanced environmental stewardship

31. Earthmark Requires… • No Cost • No Paperwork • No Kidding

32. 3-step Process • Set up a free Earthmark account

33. 3-step Process • Set up a free Earthmark account • Recovered refrigerants to Polar-authorized HVAC distributor or wholesaler using provided tagged cylinders

34. 3-step Process • Set up a free Earthmark account • Recovered refrigerants to Polar-authorized HVAC distributor or wholesaler • Evaluation & Reporting

39. Top Earthmark Participants • SeaWorld – Orlando • Duval County Schools • Ft. Rucker Army Base • TN Hospitality Association • GA Hospitality Association • CA Hospitality Association • Los Angeles Unified School District • Kroger - Atlanta • McKenney’s Mechanical • Omni Hotel – Los Angeles • Loews Vanderbilt Hotel - Nashville • U.S. Postal Service – Philadelphia • USDA – Philadelphia • Coca Cola – West Coast

40. Top 10 Reasons to Participate • Tracks refrigerants from System Owner through recycling process. • Provides compliant recovery of used refrigerants with Polar Technology’s 95% High Yield Guarantee. • No New Cost program – just take refrigerants to authorized Polar Technology HVAC distributor. (No existing relationships to be changed.) • More accurately fulfill corporate environmental stewardship programs. • Nothing to buy. No minimum obligations. • Monetary savings on highly efficient refrigerant reclamation. • Compliance with CA & EPA Guidelines on refrigerant accountability. • Lowers transaction costs through efficient recertification of used refrigerants – keeping replacement refrigerant costs low. • Banking opportunities for Clean & Return programs (provides a steady supply of replacement gas at a lower cost). • Provides Carbon Footprint mitigation statistics on all used refrigerants.

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