COOL AGREEMENT

 
Published: Thursday 29 February 1996

Shoppers in the US will now have a choke of refrigerators apprising them about the effect of the product on the environment thanks to a lawsuit. Four big refrigerator manufacturers agreed recently to relabel their products to inform the buyers that their appliances will harm the ozone layer, even though they contain no chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which have the most damaging impact on ozone. Environmentalists had filed a case against the companies which claimed that their refrigerators were CFC-free, because the sustitute chemical, hydrochlorofluorocarbons also damage the ozone.

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