A new type of foam insulation in use at Whirlpool's Amana Division plant is producing refrigerators and freezers that are more energy efficient and will dramatically slash ozone-depleting greenhouse ...

Take an old refrigerator and picture 50 pounds of it going into a landfill. That's the norm -- with refrigerator insulation containing greenhouse and ozone-depleting gases. Americans toss around nine ...

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