NEWTON, Mass. — A Star market store here is the first grocery store in the nation to receive the EPA’s GreenChill Partnership platinum store award.
The advanced refrigeration technology in the new store, which is part of Shaw’s, significantly reduces its impact on climate change and the stratospheric ozone layer by cutting the use of refrigerants by 85% compared with the typical supermarket.
“Supermarkets and their customers know that it’s cool to earn the EPA’s GreenChill Store certification, but the only way to describe the first platinum-level GreenChill supermarket in the nation is, ‘wicked cool,’” said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation. “This store shows that smart design and advanced technologies help us right now to better protect our climate, the ozone layer, and our health.”
The GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership is an EPA cooperative alliance with the supermarket industry to promote advanced technologies, strategies, and practices that reduce refrigerant charges and emissions of ozone-depleting substances and greenhouse gases.
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