Ben & Jerry’s and Greenpeace have teamed up to bring America its first Cleaner, Greener Freezer. Refrigerators and freezers have an enormous impact on Global Warming through their use of harmful Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and other harmful gases, known collectively as F-gases. Cumulatively, F-Gases account for nearly one fifth of the global warming pollution spewed into our atmosphere. Worse yet, HFCs pollution has much more staying power in the atmosphere than Carbon Dioxide (CO2), causing nearly 1400 times the damage CO2 does when measured over 100 years periods.

Greenpeace has long promoted hydrocarbon as a natural, environmentally friendly substance to replace HFCs as the cooling element in refrigeration units. The organization has made great headway with hydrocarbon in both the European and Asian markets and is now spearheading the use of the new technology in the United States in partnership with those environmentally conscious ice cream merchants, Ben & Jerry’s. The freezers are currently in test use in Ben & Jerry’s retail ice cream shops in the Washington DC, Vermont and Boston areas, while the company seeks EPA approval to spread the technology far & wide. Once EPA approval is attained Ben & Jerry’s will share the technology with the ultimate goal of making Hydrocarbon freezer and refrigeration units the standard in the United States.

You can takepart by checking out one of the most active environmental advocacy groups in the world, Greenpeace.

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Breitbart: Ben & Jerry’s Cleaner Greener Freezer Press Conference

MarketWatch: Ben & Jerry’s Launches a New Kind of Cool