Since the spring of 1993, when the first model left the assembly line in Germany, Greenfreeze technology has spread like wild-fire throughout Europe, and other parts of the world. All of the major European companies, Bosch, Siemens, Electrolux, Liebherr, Miele, Quelle, Vestfrost , Whirlpool, Bauknecht, Foron, AEG are marketing a variety of models of Greenfreeze refrigerators. Companies in Argentina, China and India will soon be producing Greenfreeze refrigerators as a result of Greenpeace initiatives. HCFCs and HFCs are the chemical industry's favourites for replacing CFCs. The chemical corporations hold the patent on HCFCs and HFCs and naturally they would like the world to believe that there are no other alternatives.
Technological answers are available.
For example, as a direct result of Greenpeace's campaign against the environmentally harmful transitional solutions of the chemical industry, i.e. HCFCs and HFCs, a major natural gas company in the U.K., Calor Gas, has introduced a new range of hydrocarbon refrigerant products, called CARE 30. The campaign closely monitors regulatory and economic developments regarding the control of ozone depleting substances within international organizations such as the Montreal Protocol, World Bank , Multilateral Fund, and the European Commission, and also scrutinizes the policies of national governments. This means that developing countries wishing to phase out of CFC based industries now have the choice to apply for funding for projects utilising hydrocarbon technologies, instead of depending exclusively on the environmentally harmful, more expensive and Western controlled HCFC and HFC technologies. The pressure is maintained through public protests, non-violent direct actions, letter writing campaigns, written submissions and direct representations to government committees and officials. The campaign also identifies and publicizes discrepancies between the phase out dates of various countries, on the premise that if an earlier phase out is possible in one industrialized country, then it should be possible in others.