In March 2008, EPA cited Metal Recycling Systems for failing to recover or to verify recovery of ozone-depleting refrigerants from small appliances that it accepted and processed at its facility. EPA discovered the alleged violations during a January 2008 facility inspection and a subsequent request for information.
For its environmental project, Metal Recycling Systems will undertake a one-year program called an Intact Appliance Pilot Program. To carry out the program, the company will offer an increased price for intact appliances as an incentive to its customers not to cut appliance refrigerant lines and unnecessarily and illegally bleed refrigerant. Metal Recycling Systems will use its refrigerant recovery equipment to properly collect refrigerant from the appliances it accepts and track the number of appliances processed through the program.
