Friend, Is your local Trader Joe’s store a climate polluter? Help us find out! Supermarkets are leaking potent greenhouse gases called HFCs from refrigeration and it’s a huge climate problem. Trader Joe’s has a particularly bad history of leaking damaging refrigerant gases and the company doesn’t follow best practices in reporting its current refrigerant use. The good news is, it’s pretty easy to find out. That’s why we’re working with our friends at the Environmental Investigation Agency to crowdsource photos of refrigerant labels at your local Trader Joe’s! How can you investigate your local store? All you need is a few minutes and a camera phone. Collect this important data through these four quick steps. We need Trader Joe's and other supermarkets to act fast to end super-polluting refrigerant leaks. In fact, refrigerant leaks from U.S. supermarkets are the emissions equivalent of adding 9.5 million cars to the road each year! Eliminating HFCs and improving refrigeration can avoid half a degree of global warming and 460 billion tons of greenhouse gases in the coming decades. With your help, we can work to hold companies like Trader Joe’s accountable for their climate impacts. Thank you for that all you do, |