(AGENPARL) – mer 04 ottobre 2023 Issued: Oct 4, 2023 (11:48am EDT)
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EPA’s GreenChill Program Celebrates Achievements in Environmentally Friendly
Refrigerant Management Across the Supermarket Industry
BALTIMORE, MD. (Oct. 4, 2023) – Today, in a ceremony at the FMI – The Food
Industry Association’s Energy and Store Development Conference, the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) GreenChill Program recognized 12
food retail companies and one manufacturer of advanced refrigeration systems
for their exceptional achievements to reduce the use of ozone-depleting
substances and/or climate-damaging refrigerants.
“Participants in the GreenChill Partnership and Store Certification Programs
have been leading the industry in environmentally friendly refrigeration
practices, and EPA annually honors their achievements at both the corporate
and individual store certification level,” said Paul Gunning, Director of
EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Protection. “These companies’ efforts show
that it is possible to keep food cool while protecting our Earth’s ozone
layer and climate system by setting and achieving ambitious goals year after
year.”
GreenChill Partners commit to reducing refrigerant emissions and decreasing
their impact on the environment. On average, GreenChill food retailers
maintain emissions rates that are approximately half the industry average,
resulting in a significant benefit to the environment. Over the past 16 years,
GreenChill Partners have avoided emissions of around 599 metric tons of
ozone-depleting substances and almost 110 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent. This is roughly equivalent to the greenhouse gas emissions
from consuming over 12 billion gallons of gasoline.  
This year, EPA is proud to recognize the following GreenChill Partner
companies: 
Best Emissions Rate 
• Ashland Food Co-Op (Ashland, Ore.) 
• Meijer (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 
Most Improved Emissions Rate 
• Brookshire Grocery Company (Tyler, Texas) 
Superior Goal Achievement  
• Ashland Food Co-Op (Ashland, Ore.) 
• Brookshire Grocery Company (Tyler, Texas) 
• Food Lion (Salisbury, N.C.) 
• The GIANT Company (Carlisle, Pa.) 
• Hannaford (Scarborough, Maine) 
• King Kullen (Bethpage, N.Y.) 
• Weis Markets (Sunbury, Pa.) 
Exceptional Goal Achievement 
• Ashland Food Co-Op (Ashland, Ore.) 
• Food Lion (Salisbury, N.C.) 
GreenChill’s Store Certification Program recognized stores for meeting
strict performance criteria including refrigeration systems with minimal
potential impacts on the ozone layer and climate system. This year’s
GreenChill Store Certification recognitions honor: 
Store Leadership 
• Kwik Trip in La Crosse, Wis., is being honored as the first convenience
store to receive a GreenChill Certification.  
Store Certification Excellence  
• ALDI (Batavia, Ill.) earned recognition for certifying 628 GreenChill
Certified Stores over the past year, more stores than any supermarket chain
has previously achieved, all of which were at the highest Platinum-Level
Certification. 
• Hillphoenix (Conyers, Ga.) achieved this recognition for the 11th
consecutive year as the commercial systems manufacturer with the most systems
installed in GreenChill Certified Stores in the last year.  
Store Recertification Excellence 
• ALDI – A total of 109 locations across California, Connecticut, Georgia,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Virginia, and Wisconsin achieved GreenChill Store Certification for five
consecutive years. 
• Hannaford – The Turner, Maine, store achieved GreenChill Store
Certification for 10 consecutive years. 
• Meijer – The Marysville, Ohio, store achieved GreenChill Store
Certification for five consecutive years. 
• Publix Super Markets – Five locations in Alabama, North Carolina, and
South Carolina achieved five-year recertifications.  
• Target – Two stores in Florida and Illinois achieved GreenChill Store
Certification for five consecutive years. 
• Weis Markets – The Danville, Pennsylvania, store achieved GreenChill
Store Certification for five consecutive years. 
About the GreenChill Program 
GreenChill’s Partnership is a voluntary program for food retailers committed
to leading the transition out of ozone-depleting refrigerants, reducing
refrigerant emissions, and adopting improved refrigeration management
practices and technologies. The goals of the GreenChill Partnership are to
provide food retailers and other industry stakeholders with information and
assistance to transition to environmentally friendlier refrigerants, lower
refrigerant charge sizes, eliminate refrigerant leaks, implement best
environmental practices, and adopt green refrigeration technologies.  
   
Since GreenChill launched in 2007, many food retailers have joined the
Corporate Emissions Reduction Program (the Partnership) with the number of
stores nearly tripling from 4,500 to more than 13,000 stores today in all 50
states. The Partnership represents more than one-third of the U.S. food retail
industry. 
GreenChill’s Store Certification Program for food retailers continues to
grow. In 2022, there were nearly 900 GreenChill Certified Stores throughout
the nation. Since it began in 2008, the GreenChill Store Certification Program
has issued more than?4,400?annual certifications to over 1,300 individual
stores.  
Learn more about GreenChill and today’s recognition recipients  
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