Australia protects the environment from damaging refrigerant gases by a three-stage program: controlling imports of the refrigerant gases; licensing technicians and businesses that use them; and destroying or reclaiming them at the end of their useful life.
Collection and destruction are managed by Refrigerant Reclaim Australia (RRA), which is the product stewardship organisation for the Australian refrigerants industry.
RRA is a not-for-profit organisation created to work nationally with industry to share the responsibility for, and costs of, recovering and safely disposing ozone depleting and synthetic greenhouse gases. Its aim is to improve the industry’s environmental performance by reducing the level of emissions of refrigerants through its take-back program. Since being established in 1993, RRA has become integral in the management of used and unwanted refrigerant, and the reduction in emissions of ozone depleting and synthetic greenhouse gas refrigerants.
RRA aims to maximise the recovery, reclamation and destruction of contaminated, surplus and unwanted ozone depleting and synthetic greenhouse gas refrigerants and, in doing so, minimise emissions.
RRA encourages contractors to recover, recycle and reuse refrigerant of acceptable quality, and to return all unwanted and contaminated refrigerant for safe disposal. It provides rebates for collected ozone depleting and synthetic greenhouse gas refrigerants and operates a national collection service, which transports recovered refrigerants to a central, secure storage facility where they are processed and/or destroyed.
Full details at https://refrigerantreclaim.com.au/
