The Environment Agency and the Ministry of International Trade and Industry are at odds on how to handle junked automobile air conditioners and the ozone-depleting greenhouse gases they contain, sources said.
Both government organs agree there are limits on what voluntary industry and municipal measures can achieve. They also recognize the need for a new law requiring that discarded air conditioners be collected.
However, the issue of when these policies should become reality remains a point of contention.
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