A. Any person that manufactures, repairs, services or maintains a refrigerator or air conditioning unit shall adopt and implement a recycling system whereby any ozone-depleting compound used as a coolant in such refrigerator or air conditioning unit shall not be released into the environment, but will be recaptured and reused or recycled.

B. No person who owns or operates a facility which accepts refrigerators or air conditioning units for dismantling, scrap metal or permanent disposal shall allow:

1. A refrigerator or air conditioning unit to be dismantled, sold as scrap metal, or permanently disposed of unless any refrigerant has first been recovered by using approved refrigerant recycling equipment; or

2. The intentional venting or avoidable release of refrigerants from a refrigerator or air conditioner.

C. Recovered refrigerant which cannot be reused or recycled shall be destroyed by a method which does not allow the release or escape or any ozone-depleting compound into the atmosphere. (Ord. 1990-18 § 2 (part))