Food retail
THE
EFFECT
Of the 23 food retailers that have been in the GreenChill partnership for more than one year:
23
4 2
19
have reduced their refrigerant emissions rate since joining
13
have reduced their emissions rate by more than 10%
have lowered their emissions rate in three or more consecutive years
have reduced their emissions rate by more than 40%
The average U.S. supermarket has an annual refrigerant emissions rate of 25%, whereas the average emissions rate of a GreenChill partner is 12.5%, or half the national average.
% 25 ANNUAL
12.5% ANNUAL
EMISSIONS RATE
EMISSIONS RATE
If every supermarket in the U.S. achieved GreenChill partners’ emission rate of 12.5%, there would be:
savings of $169 million in annual refrigerant replacement costs 18
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an annual reduction of 196 ODP tons.
an annual reduction of 29 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent.