LIPA offers rebate for turning in old fridge
Photo credit: Getty Images | An environmental worker recycles an old refrigerator at JACO Environmental, a new recycling plant in Livonia, Mich. LIPA, and other utility companies nationwide, are offering a refrigerator "cash-for- clunker" program. (Aug. 12, 2009)
The Long Island Power Authority is applying the Cash for Clunkers program to old inefficient refrigerators.
LIPA is offering its customers -- through September -- a $75 rebate when they purchase a standard-size Energy Star refrigerator larger than 7.5 cubic feet.
The program will be expanded later and will offer customers an additional $30 to help remove and properly dispose and recycle the old fridge.
In most households, LIPA says the refrigerator is the single highest energy-consuming kitchen appliance.
It says Energy Star-qualified refrigerators are 40 percent more efficient than models sold in 2001.
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