CoolCar Air Conditioning Centres Care for the Environment
By Tristan Hooker/MediaPA
The Ministry for the Environment says you should always use a qualified auto air conditioning specialist to assess and repair problems with your vehicle’s air conditioning, as a specialist will have the right tools to recover refrigerants for re-use or recycling.
In a statement released on their website, the Ministry for the Environment says, “the refrigerant gases used in vehicle air conditioners harm the world’s atmosphere if allowed to escape”. [Approved] vehicle air-conditioning refrigerants are potent global warming or ozone depleting substances.”
Catherine Tocker from multi-award-winning CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres say they are committed to protecting the environment and the loss of refrigerant to the environment should always be prevented. Not only is it best practice to recover refrigerant and find and fix leaks, but The Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996 and Climate Change Response Act 2002 make the release of refrigerants used in automotive air-conditioning an offence when working on and using the equipment in New Zealand.
“When an air-conditioning system breaks down, most people think it just needs re-gassing and there’s certainly a lot of places to get a quick and cheap top up with refrigerant. However, unless you find the leak that caused it to run out of refrigerant in the first place, you will be contributing to gases, harmful to the environment, being released to the atmosphere and often more, expensive damage being done to the system as it runs low on refrigerant for another time,” says Catherine.
“At CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres, we take this issue very seriously and take all care to ensure refrigerant does not escape into the atmosphere during servicing.”
CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres are leading providers of air-conditioning and heating services for all types of vehicles including cars, trucks, agricultural vehicles, tractors, buses and heavy equipment.
Contact CoolCar Air-Conditioning Centres Ltd:
399 Te Rapa Road, Te Rapa, Hamilton, 3200
PO Box 27145, Garnett Ave, Hamilton, 3257
Phone: 0508 266 5227
E-Mail: cath@coolcar.co.nz
Web: www.coolcar.co.nz
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