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Magazine Online January/February 1993 SPECIAL SECTION ON
REFRIGERATORS SMUD'S REFRIGERATOR GRAVEYARD-- CONDITIONS OF THE
DECEASED As part of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District's
(SMUD) high efficiency refrigerator program, the district offers
an incentive of $100 to customers who trade in an older
refrigerator in conjunction with the purchase of a new model.
Dealers pick up the old models at the same time they deliver the
new ones and bring the old models to a special recycling
facility at SMUD, where refrigerant is pumped out and recycled,
capacitors are removed and disposed, and the remainder of the
unit is sold for scrap metal. The district has collected over
30,000 refrigerators through the program. SMUD wanted to know
how much electricity the refrigerator program