SUNBURY, Pa. — Weis Markets here, which operates 157 stores under the Weis, Mr. Z’s and King’s banners, has joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, the EPA said yesterday. Weis joins 19 other supermarket banners, four refrigeration manufacturers and five chemical manufacturers in GreenChill, which was officially launched last November. GreenChill is a voluntary program in which participants are committed to developing advanced technologies, strategies and practices that reduce emissions of ozone-depleting refrigerants and greenhouse gases. At the Food Marketing Institute Energy & Technical Services Conference next month in Orlando, Fla., EPA GreenChill representatives will present awards to the supermarket partner that achieved the best leak rate in 2007. “We are also going to hold a new partner welcoming ceremony at a breakfast meeting at the Energy Conference, where we will give out membership plaques to all the members who have joined GreenChill since our launch in November of 2007,” said Keilly Witman, communications specialist, office of atmospheric programs. She noted that 4,850 supermarkets are now represented in the GreenChill program.

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