Coca-Cola Puts HFC Vending Machines on Ice

Full Phase-Out Set for 2015
By GreenBiz Staff
Published December 04, 2009

ATLANTA, GA — The Coca-Cola Company has pledged to replace all its vending machines using hydrofluorocarbons with coolers that employ more environmentally friendly refrigerants by 2015, the beverage firm and Greenpeace said.

Coca-Cola and it bottling partners have about 10 million vending machines and coolers operating around the world. The move to replace all of them with HFC-free units will reduce carbon emissions by 52.5 million metric tons over the life of the new equipment, which is roughly equivalent to taking 11 million cars off the road for a year, the firm and the organization estimate.

Coca-Cola and the environmental group made their joint announcement yesterday, capping almost a decade of work on the issue that dates to Greenpeace’s raucous challenge to the beverage giant at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney to come up with refrigerants that are not as harmful to the environment.

Since then Coca-Cola has spent about $50 million in research and development of cleaner cooling technology for vending machines and commercial coolers and is focusing on two: compressed carbon dioxide for larger units and hydrocarbon refrigeration for smaller units.

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