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Since 2020, Tradewater has worked diligently, with support from a local waste manager, in finding CFCs and HCFCs refrigerant in Chile in need of destruction. Remaining stockpiles of CFCs and recovered HCFCs from end-of-life equipment were acquired, exported to Europe and destroyed.

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Tradewater collected CFC and HCFC refrigerants in the Dominican Republic by working with a local stakeholders to collect and aggregate these gases from recovering activities and old CFCs that had been stockpiled but had no end-of-life solution for them.
The gases collected were mixed and also included later generations of refrigerants that are not currently eligible for Tradewater’s projects. In alignment with our mission to destroy potent greenhouse gases, Tradewater collected all of the refrigerants, and shipped them to the US for permanent destruction.

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In 2017, Tradewater developed the first refrigerant collection and destruction project outside the US. Tradewater operated in partnership with a recycling center in Pokuase, Ghana called City Waste Recycling, Ltd. (CWR) that recycled old, inefficient refrigerators.
Tradewater worked with CWR to consolidate the refrigerants it collected from these old refrigerators, as well as a substantial stockpile of additional CFC refrigerants, and shipped it to the United States, where it was destroyed safely.

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In Honduras, a former importer of CFCs held a stockpile of CFC-12 that had been slowly leaking into the atmosphere since 2004. No path for destruction was available to the importer, so Tradewater stepped in, acquiring the remaining refrigerant and exporting it to Europe for permanent destruction.

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By 2007, the Thailand Customs Department had seized a large volume of refrigerant gases, which had stood in storage for over a decade. By collaborating with multiple stakeholders, Tradewater generated a safe, local, ongoing destruction process that provides a permanent end-of-life solution for these gases.

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Tradewater works to identify and mitigate the leak of non-CO2 gases, halocarbons and methane, across the US. Our work is focused on collecting and destroying refrigerant gases and finding leaking orphaned gas wells to plug. Through this work, we are permanently preventing non-CO2 gases from releasing into the atmosphere.

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CFCs that were produced and imported into various countries across the Middle East before the phase-out was completed in 2010 remain in the hands of retailers and importers. Tradewater is working locally to acquire this material, together with some recovered from old equipment.  Tradewater has already collected thousands of kilograms of refrigerants and is working to ensure that others remaining are found, collected and properly destroyed.