These are 200 refrigerators that land every day at PureSphera, real greenhouse gas bombs if left behind. They are thousands to wait their turn, crammed in the backyard of the factory.
Casually, in these machines sleep halocarbons, greenhouse gases up to 15,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide.grams of halocarbons, depending on the size of the device “,” text “:” In the compressor, you can find 120, 110grams of halocarbons, depending on the size of the device “}}”>In the compressor, you can find 120, 110 grams of halocarbons, depending on the size of the device, specifies Vincent Marcotte, director of logistics and gas and environmental management at PureSphera.
The new generations of refrigerators available on the market also include insulating foam, which contains four times more halocarbons. These halocarbons must therefore be captured at all costs, meticulously, or even surgically.
clearer the gas and oil contained in the refrigerant circuit “,” text “:” In fact it is like a large needle which will pierce the copper pipe, then it is connected to a pipe and a vacuum pump, so at that moment we will clear the gas and oil contained in the refrigerant circuit “}}”>In fact it’s like a large needle that will pierce the copper pipe, then it is connected to a pipe and a vacuum pump, so at that point we will clearer the gas and oil contained in the refrigerant circuit
, explains Vincent Marcotte.
The refrigerator and all of its parts are then crushed and shredded. In this way, 96% of refrigerators are recycled. However, the 20,000 to 40,000 refrigerators processed by the Bécancour company are far from the 300,000 abandoned each year in Quebec.
The cities of Bécancour, Trois-Rivières and Shawinigan encourage residents to drop off their old refrigerators in an ecocentre in their area or to use bulky waste collection services.
From the report by Marc-Antoine Belanger
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