Mexico. According to Carlos Álvarez Flórez, president of Mexico, Comunicación y Ambiente A.C, there are three refrigerant recycling and collection and destruction centers located in Queretaro that are handling these processes irregularly.
Álvarez points out that these three places do not have the permits issued by the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) for the storage of old refrigerants, in addition to affirming that there is no adequate training for the handling of refrigerants.
For that reason, the engineer filed a lawsuit with the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection in which he asks that those responsible for these practices be punished with 50 minimum wages and asks that the refrigerants be delivered to companies that have the necessary permits for their handling.
The poor control of these refrigerants could mean about 500,000 tons per year equivalent to CO2 that would be expelled into the ozone layer, which represents 8% of the total generated in that country.
