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Back to the Future - Working Safely with Hydrocarbons

 

Back to the future
Video

© United Nations Environment Programme
Date: 1999

D uration:
18 minutes 06 seconds


Integrated solutions to protect ozone layer and safeguarding climate change.
This video highlights safety practices when working with hydrocarbons in refrigeration. An animated figure, 'Mr Cool' is the viewer's guide to the latest environmentally friendly cooling agent. Hydrocarbons were used in fridges before CFCs were invented, and now they are making a comeback as alternatives to ozone depleting CFCs. In Germany, the UK and China, hydrocarbon fridges are fashionable again. They are an efficient and cost-effective replacement for cooling equipment using CFCs.

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This video, produced by TVE International, was developed as part of UNEP's Work Programme under the Multilateral Fund for Implementation of the Montreal Protocol.

With thanks to the British Antarctic Survey, British Satellite News, Du Pont (Delaware), Friends of the Earth (Canada), Greenpeace Communications, Marioff Hi-fog Oy, National Geographic Educational Films, Northern Telecom (Ontario), Television Suisse Romande, Trillium Productions and UNEP DTIE's OzonAction Programme.

  
© UNEP DTIE 2007 | updated 15-nov-10