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What Does the R22 Phaseout Mean for Consumers?

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What Does the R22 Phaseout Mean for Consumers?

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Availability of R22. The Clean Air Act does not allow any refrigerant to be vented into the atmosphere during installation, service, or retirement of equipment. Therefore, R22 must be recovered and recycled (for reuse in the same system), reclaimed (reprocessed to the same purity levels as new R22), or destroyed. After 2020, the servicing of R22 based systems will rely on recycled refrigerants. It is expected that reclamation and recycling will ensure that existing supplies of R22 will last longer and be available to service a greater number of systems. As noted above, chemical manufacturers will be able to produce R22 for use in new A/C equipment until 2010, and until 2020, they can continue production of R22 for use in servicing existing equipment that was made before 2010. Given this schedule, the transition away from R22 to the use of ozone friendly refrigerants should be smooth. For the next 20 years or more, R22 should continue to be available for all systems that require R22 for

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