Currently, the Class III landfill accepts refrigerators, relying on a county electrician certified in Freon removal to drain the chemical before a metal recycling company picks up the appliances.

Currently, the landfill accepts refrigerators, relying on a county electrician certified in Freon removal to drain the chemical before a metal recycling company picks up the appliances.

Those old units, particularly the ones made before 1995, are less efficient and full of banned Freon. NV Energy is hoping to make old refrigerators a thing of the past and save customers money ...