Lenet Compton, was pleased to work with Dr. Rick Randolph of Ambassador Rotary Club on September 26th on a project for Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG), which they are both members, in partnership with Tradewater. Tradewater is a mission-driven firm working around the world to safely collect and destroy harmful refrigerant gases before they are released into the environment. In the past 5 years, Tradewater more than 1,000,000 pounds of potent chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) refrigerants have been destroyed to avoid emissions equal to 4,200,000 tons of Co2. That is the same as preventing the emissions from people driving over 10 billion miles. Our work last weekend helped offset the equivalent of more than 500 tons of Co2 or the same thing as taking 100 cars off the road for a year.
Tradewater is excited to work with the Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group (ESRAG) and Rotary Clubs in this fight against global climate change through the small-scale aggregation of harmful CFCs. We collect old CFC refrigerants (CFC stands for chlorofluorocarbon), in particular Refrigerants 12, 114, and 500. Cylinders and cans of chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants remain hidden away throughout our communities in peoples garages and businesses. We work together to find these cylinders and cans and see that they do not end up leaking into the atmosphere.