Mexico. The civil association Mexico Communication and Environment (MCA) filed a complaint against 14 refrigerant recycling centers for not complying with the legislation by not having the appropriate equipment or federal permits to carry out the corresponding tasks.
The local government created in 2008 the Program of Replacement of Household Appliances for Energy Saving, however, the MCA ensures that the sites do not manage to recover the refrigerants correctly without releasing the oil and gases of one and a half million refrigerators before 2009 that arrived at the centers.
Carlos Álvarez Flores, president of MCA, directly accused the General Directorate of Air Quality Management and Pollutant Emissions and Transfer Registry of having allowed these centers to be created without federal authorization.
Flores commented in this regard that "we do not know where those 100 tons of refrigerant gases are, since we do not know if they were sent to these Collection and Destruction Centers or released into the environment with the consequent damages."
