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CFCs ban by 2008

by Florence Wickramage

The Government has decided in principle to ban the use of Chloro Fluro Carbons (CFCs) which are commonly used in the manufacture of Refrigerators, Air-conditioners etc. by the year 2008, two years in advance of the stipulated deadline to ban its use in the country.

This is in keeping with the Montreal Protocol to protect the Ozone Layer by phasing out Ozone Depleting Substances in Sri Lanka.

Indrapriya Kularatne Consultant to the National Ozone Unit of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources said that a policy decision has also been taken not to issue licences to import CFCs by the year 2008.

Addressing a media workshop on "National Ozone year 2004 and related issues" at the auditorium of the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science in Colombo on Wednesday, Kularatne added that CFCs was contributing immensely to the depletion of the Ozone layer and that around 10,000 metric tons of CFCs were being released into the air annually as a result of industrialisation. The phasing out of CFCs began in the year 1999.

Kularatne said that several projects have been completed by the Ozone Unit. They include conversion of three refrigerator manufacturing factories into Ozone-friendly technologies - they are the brands of Singer, Usha, Sisil which were originally operating with CFC-12 and now using R-134a; Conversion of aerosol manufacturing factory to Ozone-friendly technology.

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