Americans throw out about nine million refrigerators and freezers every year. More ultra-efficient models are joining the market, while old energy-hog fridges wind up in landfills where they release ozone-depleting Freon and other potent greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. An old fridge is "the equivalent of driving a 1965 car to work," Brian Conners, the president and chief operating officer of Appliance Recycling Centers of America's (ARCA's) Advanced Processing facility in Philadelphia, told Discover News.
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