Countermeasures against Freon gas are delayed ②

Domestic and international initiatives for freon gas Freon gases have a significant impact on the human body, while contributing to the natural destruction caused by global warming. It does not go though it is the one which appeared as a product of an endless desire either way though the Freon is left. After the possibility of ozone depletion by CFC was pointed out in 1974, developed countries, including the Japan, took steps to prevent the freeze of production capacity and the gradual prohibition of use. In the late 1980s, international conventions and protocols were established, and many countries were contracting. In 1953, the "Vienna Treaty for the Protection of the Ozone layer" (172 countries and EU) concluded the "Montreal Protocol on substances that destroy the ozone layer" in 1987. After that, amendments were made to the addition of regulated substances and the examination of regulatory schedules, etc. In Japan, in the latter half of the 1990s, manuals and programs were created for the recovery and destruction of CFC. In May 1988, the Act on the Protection of the ozone layer by the regulation of specific substances was enacted as a law to promote the protection of the ozone layer. The law has reduced the amount of CFC production and consumption in the Japan, but the collection and destruction of CFCs in the case where the equipment used to dispose of chlorofluorocarbons has been discarded has been carried out by local governments and industry voluntary efforts, There was no legal system about processing. Therefore, most of the CFC was released into the atmosphere. To solve this, it is this law that has been enacted.

In 1998, the "Household Equipment Recycling Act (Home Appliance recycle Law)" was obligated to recover refrigerant freon from household refrigerators and air conditioners. In 2001, "The Act on the recovery and destruction of CFC in particular products (CFC recovery and fracture law)" prohibits the discharge of refrigerant CFC used in commercial refrigeration air conditioners and car air conditioners into the air vain, It was obligated to recover and destroy the refrigerant freon at the time of disposal of the equipment. After that time, the "CFC emission suppression method" will be enforced in April 2015, but the slow is not progressing. As for global warming, as other greenhouse gas emissions decreased, only chlorofluorocarbon was increasing every year, and the measures were a challenge.