Put A Sign By The Dump!

Originally Posted by Mick

Be careful with refrigerators, AC etc. What are you going to tell the EPA when they ask how you disposed of them? Are you certified for refrigerant recovery? When you advertised, you opened yourself to a lot of liability.

I just have some dinky cardboard sign on the side of the road.
I hope the EPA has better things to do.

2 side notes- I saw a pile of window AC units at the recycling yard and asked the cashier if people were just dumping them at mixed metal prices instead of separating them. It seems the geniuses on the city council passed a law that says the scrap yard can only take AC units that come with a letter from a certified HVAC shop that the freon was recovered.
So what happens- people just dump the AC's on the side of the road, OR the scrap yard just grinds them up as mixed metal and the freon is released anyway.

And years ago, when I did some contract work swapping electric units for gas at apartment complexes, we'd just cut the lines and vent the freon- must've done hundreds of them that way.
Didya notice that the 'scary' news about freon came out at the exact time that DuPont's patent ran out?? but luckily for us, DuPont had a very expensive replacement patented and ready to go.
Yeah for paid lobbyists!!!

Originally Posted by Mick

I doubt it. The fine is $25,000 per incident or $37,500 per day. There have been several successful prosecutions. You can read about the EPA regs here: http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/608/608fact.html

I saw the pile at the scrap yard, and no certified HVAC tech's in sight.

The other alternative is that the AC units would go into a landfill. So the freon's coming out one way or another.

What about the AC in cars that get scrapped??