GreenChill Partner Spotlight: Food Lion

Managing Refrigerant to Protect the Environment

Many of the roughly 38,000 U.S. food retailers1 use
refrigerants that can deplete the ozone layer, contribute
to climate change, or do both when emitted. As part of
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's)
GreenChill Partnership, food retailers across the country
are taking action to prevent and reduce refrigerant leaks,
reduce the amount of refrigerant their systems use, and
transition to environmentally friendlier refrigerants. These
actions help protect the environment and reduce
operations and maintenance costs.

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Food Lion is committed to reducing its impact on the
environment. Managing refrigerant is key for achieving
this objective. Food Lion joined the GreenChill
Partnership in 2007 and is one of the program's founding
Partners. This document highlights several of the
company's refrigerant management achievements.

Founded in 1957
Headquarters in Salisbury, N.C.
1,027 stores in 15 states



Key Strategies

Food Lion is taking several actions to manage refrigerant in its stores to improve its environmental
sustainability and save money.

Preventing and reducing refrigerant leaks

Food Lion is installing systems for automatic refrigerant leak detection in the motor rooms of some of
its remodeled stores. These systems will send alarms to the store, maintenance supervisor, or both
when leaks are detected. The company also runs a rigorous program for finding and repairing small
leaks that may otherwise go unnoticed by conventional detection protocols.

Using less refrigerant

Food Lion is reducing the refrigerant capacity required in its stores as part of a comprehensive
remodeling program. This helps to reduce the amount of refrigerant that could potentially be emitted,
while also reducing the costs for purchasing refrigerant.

Transitioning to environmentally friendlier refrigerants

Food Lion is converting many of its refrigeration systems from ozone-depleting to non-ozone-
depleting refrigerants, and also seeking out refrigerants with lower-global warming potentials (GWPs)
and thus reduced impacts on the climate system. The company also tests new refrigeration
technologies that use environmentally friendlier refrigerants in new stores.

11ncludes supermarkets, grocery stores, food cooperatives, supercenters, and wholesale clubs.

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Achievements

Since 2007; Food Lion's efforts to manage
refrigerant have earned the retailer recognition
from EPA, its peers, and the industry as a whole.
Food Lion has:

Reduced its company-wide refrigerant
emissions rate by nearly 22 percent, and
maintains a rate below the GreenChill
Partnership average;

Reduced its refrigerant emissions rate per
store by 10 percent; and

Reduced its ozone layer impact per store by
62 percent through the use of
environmentally friendlier refrigerants.

Food Lion's Wayne Rosa (R), accepting an award for
emissions reductions and store certification from
U.S. EPA's Tom Land (L) at the 2014 GreenChill Annual
Recognition Ceremony.

Recognition from GreenChill

Superior Goal Achievement: 2020, 2017, 2013, 2012, 2009
Store Re-Certification Excellence: Southport, N.C. (2019); Columbia, S.C, (2013)
Distinguished Partner (2014, 2008)

Learn More

Explore Food Lion's refrigerant management activities
Discover Food Lion's Sustainabilitv Program

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The GreenChill Partnership

EPA's GreenChill Corporate Emissions Reduction Program is a voluntary partnership with food
retailers, refrigeration system manufacturers, and refrigerant manufacturers to reduce
refrigerant emissions and decrease Partners' impact on the ozone layer and climate change.
GreenChill Food Retail Partners commit to reducing their corporate-wide refrigerant emissions
by annually setting reduction goals, measuring corporate stocks and emissions, and reporting
their data to EPA. Learn more about the GreenChill Partnership and the benefits of joining.

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www.epa.gov/greenchill

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