Cool deal; WMI, EPA settle Mass. fridge case.(Waste Management Inc charged with collecting appliances improperly)(Brief Article)
Waste News, May, 2002 by Johnson, Jim
Waste Management Inc. will spend more than $3 million to settle a case with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly improperly collecting appliances and releasing refrigerants into Boston's air. The settlement resolves federal claims that the company, through its Waste Management of Massachusetts Inc.
subsidiary, collected refrigerators and air conditioners with packer trucks from July 1997 to July 1998, the EPA said. ``This case should serve as a warning to waste haulers across the country that strict compliance with the ozone protection requirements is expected,'' U.S. Attorney Michael J. Sullivan said. The appliances were crushed in the trucks and ozone-depleting refrigerants - chlorofluorocarbons and hydro chlorofluorocarbons...
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