# Presentation: 493067

## EPA & the Supermarket Industry: Partners in Environmental Protection

**EPA & the Supermarket Industry: ***Partners in Environmental Protection*

***GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership***

## Agenda

**EPA and the supermarket industry**
**Upcoming regulatory initiatives**
**Upcoming voluntary initiatives**
**Long-term perspectives**
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**Consumers and the environment**

## Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives Montreal Protocol

**Treaty to reduce production of ozone depleting substances such as CFCs & HCFCs**
**HCFC Phaseout Milestone 2010**
**Goals are to restore ozone layer, prevent harmful effects of ultraviolet radiation overexposure**
**Outstanding environmental and health benefits**
**6.3 million U.S. skin cancer deaths prevented by 2165**

## Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives HCFC Phaseout Schedule

## Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives Milestones for HCFC Phaseout

## Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives HCFC-22 Supply & Demand

- 0

- 10,000

- 20,000

- 30,000

- 40,000

- 50,000

- 60,000

- 70,000

- 80,000

- 90,000

- 100,000

- 2010

**HCFC-22 (MT)**

- Anticipated R-22 Supply from Recovered R-22

- Virgin R-22 Needed to Satisfy Service Demand

- Total R-22 Service Demand

- 90%  of U.S. HCFC Consumption Cap

- U.S. HCFC Consumption Cap

- 2015

- 2020

- Source: EPA's Vintaging Model (VM IO file_2007_11-12-07)

## Upcoming Regulatory InitiativesHCFC-22 Supply & Demand

## Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives Servicing Existing Equipment 

**In 2015, HCFC-22 needs will exceed the 2015 cap by more than 10,000 metric tons**
**Recovery and reuse needed to meet demand**
**What can you do?**
**Improve service practices (recover, recycle, reclaim)**
**Fix leaks**
**Replace equipment where economical**

## Upcoming Regulatory Initiatives During the Transition Period

**Businesses have three options:**** **
**Convert existing system to alternative refrigerant**
**Buy a new system that uses an alternative refrigerant**
**Continue to operate existing system**
**Establish a plan to replace/repair leaking equipment**
**Recover and reuse refrigerant from equipment that is retired**
**Begin to transition to alternative refrigerants**
**Many businesses have started to switch**
**Consider amount of time needed to convert**

**Notes:**
This slide is most appropriate for businesses.

## Upcoming Regulatory InitiativesLeak Repair Rule

**Moving through the process**
**End 2008 / beginning 2009**
**Leak rates ******

## Voluntary InitiativesEPA Partnership Programs

**More than 80 environmental partnership programs **
**Voluntary participation**
**No membership fee**
**Non-regulatory**
**Gives you a friendly face at the EPA**

**Notes:**
1.  EPA has more experience with industry-government partnerships than any other environmental organization on the planet.  Just take energy star.
2. Sign a contract – but it is aspirational – and it is non-binding, states that either party can pull out for any reason.  
3.
No fines if you don’t meet your objectives.  Offers no regulatory relief.
 we put up a Chinese wall between us and regulatory arm.  Use us as a contact point to make “enquiries.”  have an insider to help communicate your ideas.
  We work together with you – true partnership in that EPA agrees to provide you with various services, and you agree to provide EPA with a benefit.  Always trying to improve – bundling and key account “managers” may be the direction of the future.

## Voluntary InitiativesPartners for the Environment

**www.epa.gov/partners**
**Achievement Through Partnership:  A Progress Report Through 2000**
**Boosting Your Bottom Line**
**Guide to EPA Climate Partnership Programs**

## Why are Voluntary Partnerships Important?

**Focus is on cooperation and mutual advantage of business and environment**
**If it works, no need for regulation**
**More flexibility **
**Lower cost for business & lower cost for government**
**Good way to address problems that are difficult to regulate and/or difficult to enforce**

## 
HCFC-22 is primary refrigerant
Harms the ozone layer (ODP of .055)
Contributes to climate change (GWP of 1500)
Phase-out in 2010 of HCFC-22 production for new equipment; Limited production allowed until 2020 to service existing refrigeration equipment

DX systems are the dominant technology
Lg. refrigerant charges (ave. spmkt. = 4000 lbs.)
High leak rates (ave. 20-25% = about 1000 lbs. of refrigerant emitted PER SUPERMARKET per year)

**HCFC-22 is primary refrigerant**
**Harms the ozone layer (ODP of .055)**
**Contributes to climate change (GWP of 1500)**
**Phase-out in 2010 of HCFC-22 production for new equipment; Limited production allowed until 2020 to service existing refrigeration equipment**
**DX systems are the dominant technology**
**Lg. refrigerant charges (ave. spmkt. = 4000 lbs.)**
**High leak rates (ave. 20-25% = about 1000 lbs. of refrigerant emitted PER SUPERMARKET per year)**

**Supermarket Refrigeration**

## GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership

**An EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry**
**Promotes the adoption of advanced refrigeration technologies, strategies, and practices**
**Reduce charges & emissions of ozone-depleting substances (potent greenhouse gases)**
**Help protect the ozone layer and protect against global warming**

## GreenChill Supermarket Partners

| Supermarket | # of stores | Sales ($bil) | Area |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Food Lion | 1300 | 28.15 | DE, GA, MD, PA, TN, WV, FL, KY, NC, SC, VA |
| Giant Eagle | 222 | 7.1 | PA, OH, WV, MD |
| Hannaford | 165 | Not available | ME, NY, MA, NH, VT |
| Harris Teeter | 174 | 3.64 | NC, SC, VA, GA, TN, FL, MD, DE, DC |
| Price Chopper | 116 | Not available | NY, CT, MA, NH, PA, VT |
| Publix | 938 | 23 | FL, GA, SC, AL, TN |
| Supervalu | 2552 | 44 | CA, DC, DE, IA, ID, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MN, MO, MT, ND, NC, NH, NJ, NV, OH, OR, PA, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY |
| Whole Foods | 200 | 6.6 | AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, NV, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI |
| Weis Markets | 
157
 | 
2.32
 | PA, MD, NJ, NY and WV 
 |
| TOTALS | 5824 | ~115+ | In 46 of 50 states + DC! |

## GreenChill Priorities

**Shift from DX systems to advanced refrigeration systems**** **
**Shift from HCFC-22 to substitute refrigerants**** **
**Promote reduced refrigerant charges**** **
**Promote equipment leak tightness**
**At production**
**At installation**
**Preventative maintenance**

## Why advanced refrigeration technology?

**Montreal Protocol’s goal is ozone layer recovery – reduces ozone-depleting substances (CFCs & HCFCs)**
**Substitute refrigerants (HFCs) are ozone-safe, but they are greenhouse gases**
**Leaking 1000 pounds of greenhouse gas instead of 1000 pounds of ozone-depleting gas is substituting one environmental disaster for another **

## Benefits of Joining GreenChill

**Benchmarking to evaluate progress**
**Recognition for actions beyond regulatory requirements**
**Build brand equity**
**Tools to attain corporate environmental stewardship and sustainability goals**
**Prepare for HCFC phaseout and other deadlines**
**Access to latest information on state-of-the-art refrigeration technologies, alternative refrigerants, and best practices **
**Networking & information sharing among partners**

## GreenChill Projects 2008

**GreenChill Supermarket Certification Program - gold & silver level**
**Best Practice Guidelines**
**Retrofits**
**Advanced Refrigeration Technology**
**Installation Leak Tightness**
**Reporting/partner goals/benchmarking**
**Supermarket emissions data**
**Equipment manufacturer leak tightness**
**HCFC-22 reclamation**
**Service Tech/Contractor Certification**
**Research**
**Energy efficiency theoretical study**
**Pilot projects**

## Retrofits = most widespread strategy to prepare for HCFC-22 phaseout in existing stores
Opportunity to tighten up the system! 

**Opportunity to tighten up the system!**** **

**GreenChill’s Retrofit Best Practice Guidelines**

## Best Practices GuidelinesAdvanced Refrigeration Technology

**Describes and explains alternatives to conventional DX systems**
**Factors to consider when selecting an advanced refrigeration option**
**Best practices to reduce refrigerant charge**
**Best practices for leak tightness at production and installation**
**Service and maintenance best practices for leak tightness**
**Case studies**

## Long-Term Environmental Perspective

**New administration**
**More environmental focus?**
**Expansion of GreenChill Partnership**
**Reduce refrigerant charges**
**Reduce leaks**
**Greenhouse gas regulation?**
**Implementation of new leak regulation**
**Other?  Depends to a certain extent on you**

## Consumers & the Environment

**Short-term**
**Price consciousness**
**But...consumers need to feel good about shopping at your stores (moral “permission”)**
**Long-term**
**Need to build brand equity**
**Position yourself for the future - differentiation vs. competitors**
**If your environmental activities aren’t publicized, consumers assume you aren’t doing anything**
**Waste costs money - what’s good for the environment is good for your bottom line **

## Contact Information - GreenChill

**Keilly Witman**
- 	Stratospheric Protection Division, US EPA
- 	Tel: (202) 343-9742
- 	_[witman.keilly@epa.gov](mailto:witman.keilly@epa.gov)_

## Contact Info – Phaseout and Regulatory

**Phaseout:  Cindy Newberg,**
- _[newberg.cindy@epa.gov](mailto:newberg.cindy@epa.gov)__, 202-343-9729_
**For Sec. 608: Julius Banks,**
- _[banks.julius@epa.gov](mailto:banks.julius@epa.gov)__, 202-343-9870_
**Additional Info:**
- _[http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/phaseout/classtwo.html](http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/phaseout/classtwo.html)_
- _[http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/allowance.html](http://www.epa.gov/ozone/title6/allowance.html)_