Refrigerant Recycling, Inc. in Campbell Industrial Park is where your old refrigerators end up. They say old refrigerators are coming in by the truck load.
"Typically on a busy day, especially with the cash for clunkers, we're doing about 200 appliances a day that's minimum," says Scott Stephenson, Refrigerant Recycling, Inc. Operations Manager.
The appliances are then gutted and taken apart piece by piece.
"Aluminum, compressor units, a little bit of copper, condensers or evaporator coils so everything in the refrigerator gets recycled," says Stephenson.
The compressors get a hole drilled into it to let the oil drain out. This box full, is from just the last week.
The refrigerator's coolant is brought here to a back warehouse.
"Pretty much the cash for clunkers have been the majority of all this stock right here," shows employee Kawika Cambra. "We're busy enough where we actually have to go and get more tanks.">
The refrigerant is then cleaned, tested and boxed ready to be re-sold.
"To auto parts stores, hotels, maintenance companies," says Cambra.
Workers say the $250 rebate program has them working overtime to keep up.
"We are putting in some work this weekend possibly even Sunday just to keep up with flow of all the refrigerators coming in," says Stephenson.
Hawaii Energy started with 8,000 refrigerators and as of Friday morning there were 1,877 left - by early evening the number dropped to 1,319.
With big box sales this Memorial day weekend stores are eager to get every last refrigerator sold soon.
"Supposedly it was going to last over the month but I don't think it will be past the weekend the way the program is running," says Stephenson.
The Cash for Appliances Program will go through June 23rd or until funds run out.
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Trade Up for Cool Cash.
