100,000 Refrigerators Recycled by GE Reports Used RefrigeratorforSale.net

San Francisco, CA - Many consumers are unaware of the dangers that come with disposing of

large appliances such as air conditioners, freezers, and refrigerators. These items are considered

to be hazardous due to the fact that the chemical components that make them up are poison to

our environment. The very air we breathe, water we drink, and soil our food grows in can be

adversely affected by improper disposal of large appliances. Luckily there is good news from

GE.

The process of recycling these appliances, known as “white goods,” is a long one. Each

appliance has to be broken down carefully so that the harmful substances are not released into

the air or soil. Any reusable parts also have to be set aside and cataloged. GE actually helped to

support the only UNTHA Recycling Technology System, or URT in North America. This was

done through a partnership with the Appliance Recycling Centers of America, or ARCA. With

this new technology, GE has been able to process some one-hundred thousand refrigerators,

which kept up to five-and-a-half million pounds of freezer and refrigerator materials out of the

landfills of the United States.

GE explains that as many as nine million refrigerators are tossed out each year in America. The

majority of them are simple shredded for the metals and such that they are made of, while the

other forty-seven pounds of insulation and foam wind up buried in America's landfills. Through

the URT system, and with the help of ARCA and the Environmental Protection Agency, GE has

managed to help more Americans completely recycle their refrigerators.

So what exactly is the URT system? It is a huge machine (40-feet tall) which takes large items

and “eats” them, leaving the items as small as possible. It takes approximately one minute for the

URT system to disassemble an entire refrigerator, where it used to take hours for the parts to be

taken off and the harmful chemicals to be removed. The URT can recover as much as 95% of the

insulation and foam, which is inside of both freezers and refrigerators, and reuses it as fuel or for

making new products.

GE helps new customers by making the arrangements needed to take away old appliances

anytime the consumer buys a new one. When the new unit is delivered, the old one is then taken

to be processed properly.

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