Since October 2008, the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, a program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for food retailers and refrigeration vendors, has presented only two stores with its platinum-level store certification award, the highest award the program bestows. The program has also given 11 gold-level and 20 silver-level certifications in that time.

To earn the platinum certification, a store must use a very small amount of refrigerant charge (no more than 0.5 pounds of refrigerant per 1,000 BTU per hour) and have an annual refrigerant emissions rate of no more than 5%. Those miniscule numbers would distinguish a store both for environmental friendliness (toward the ozone layer and climate change) and cost savings; by contrast, the average supermarket's refrigeration system leaks about 25% of its refrigerant charge each year, according to the EPA.

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