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The EPA has further signed contracts with 53 workshops in the country to run the conversion. So far, 1,100 refrigerators have so far been converted from CFC based to HCFC based.
This was disclosed by Emmanuel Osae Quansah, Deputy Director of the EPA in-charge of the National Ozone Unit, at a roundtable discussion to mark United Nations International Day for the preservation of the Ozone Layer in Accra. The programme was organised by the Free World Foundation with support from the UNDP, GEF Small Grant Programme.
Mr Quansah disclosed that the trained refrigerator technicians had been sensitised to educate people who bring their refrigerators for repairs on why they have to switch from CFC based to HCFC based.
He said because the conversion to HCFC is expensive, the EPA supplements every refrigerator converted with US$7, noting, 'This also reduces our dependence on CFC based and improves the country's compliance with the Montreal Protocol.
He bemoaned the increasing trend of some unscrupulous refrigerator technicians using adulterated gases, and in some cases, falsely labeled gases such as R22 which is used in air conditioners as HCFC.
He said this practice causes serious damage to refrigerators. According to him, the EPA had seized over 500 cylinders of adulterated or falsely labeled gases. He intimated that although thepractice was common in most workshops in the country, it was very prevalent around Kaneshie and Kokomlemle in Accra
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