Fluorocarbons have been identified as being environmentally damaging. Is it all right to use fluorocarbon refrigerants in air conditioners?
Many of the air conditioners currently installed in residences and other buildings use fluorocarbons as refrigerants. Fluorocarbons are harmless to humans and have little or no environmental impact when used in a normal manner in an air conditioner. You can use a fluorocarbon-refrigerant air conditioner without worry. However, when released into the atmosphere, fluorocarbons destroy the ozone layer or are suspected of contributing to global warming. Therefore, we ask our retailers and users to recover and decompose of any fluorocarbon refrigerant properly whenever they dispose of an air conditioner so that it is not released into the atmosphere.
