About RRA

Refrigerant Reclaim Australia (RRA) is the product stewardship organisation for the Australian refrigeration and air conditioning industry.

RRA is a not-for-profit organisation created to work nationally with industry to share the responsibility for, and costs of, recovering, reclaiming and destroying surplus and unwanted refrigerants.

RRA's aim is to improve the industry's environmental performance by reducing the level of emissions of refrigerants through its take-back program. Since established in 1993, RRA has become part of the industry fabric.

Created by industry, for industry, RRA is a best-practice, producer responsibility organisation.

RRA:

• adopts a co-regulatory approach, which produces positive environmental outcomes
  
  
• operates efficiently through one coordinated scheme, saving industry
  members time, money and effort
  
  
• provides rebates for contractors who recover and return refrigerant
  (around $1.3 million in 2005/2006).

RRA's head office is in Canberra with operations across Australia.

In May 2006, RRA a prestigious Climate Protection Award from the United States Environment Protection Agency recognising "leadership, personal dedication and technical achievements in protecting the earth's climate".

A decade earlier in 1995, RRA received international recognition with an Ozone Protection Award
for "exceptional contribution to global environment protection".