EHS has been actively involved with management of ODS since 1997.  The focus of EHS work in this area is to assist regulators and industry association with the management of surplus ODS in Canada.

·        EHS assisted Environment Canada with:

o   The development of Canada’s Strategy to Accelerate the Phase-Out of CFC and Halon Uses and to Dispose of the Surplus Stocks, http://www.ccme.ca/assets/pdf/cfc_halons_dspslstrtgy_e.pdf.

o   Technical and economic assessment of over 40 technologies for destruction of surplus stocks of ODS.  The assessments involved establishment of an International Expert Panel and a Working Group of Canadian stakeholders, http://ozone.unep.org/teap/Reports/Other_Task_Force/TEAP02V3b.pdf.

·        Refrigerant Management Canada (RMC), an arm of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Institute (HRAI), was created by industry to collect and dispose of the CFC inventory in the Commercial Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning sector in Canada,  www.hrai.ca/rmc/.  EHS assisted with the launch of RMC by developing operating standards for two types of Service Providers to RMC: Collection and Destruction Service Providers.  Since the launch of RMC, EHS carried out numerous audits of both Collection and Destruction Service Providers in Canada and USA.

·        For the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, EHS assessed the availability of suitable alternatives to Class II (HCFC-based) solvents for specific industrial cleaning applications.