Cooling and freezing appliances| Renewi

Compliant processing

Professional advice

Many years of experience

Trusted expertise in cooling and freezing appliance recycling

Refrigerators, freezers, and other cooling appliances are widely used in offices, commercial kitchens, supermarkets, and industrial sites. Once they reach end-of-life, these units become a specific waste stream that includes valuable raw materials, but also harmful substances like refrigerants and insulation gases that require careful handling.

Does your organisation needs this service?
This waste stream is common for retailers upgrading stock, property managers clearing out buildings, food service businesses replacing equipment, and manufacturers or logistics firms dealing with returns or defective units.

Expert recycling and flexible collection
Proper treatment of refrigerators, freezers, and other temperature exchange equipment requires expert handling to ensure full depollution and regulatory compliance. At Renewi, we combine decades of experience with state-of-the-art technology to provide safe, sustainable recycling solutions you can trust. We offer both one-time collections and custom container solutions, making it easy to collect and recycle cooling appliances in a compliant and efficient way, whether you’re dealing with a single unit or a full batch.

How are cooling and freezing appliances recycled?

Our advanced technology is developed and rigorously tested in our demonstration plant, with continuous improvements from our dedicated team. We maintain complete control throughout every step of the recycling process:

Sorting of appliances: domestic, professional, ammonia-based, and class 6 appliances (without blowing agents)
Safe removal of oils and refrigerants
Foam and blowing agent extraction using shredding, separation, and PU degassing
Environmentally sound treatment of refrigerants and blowing agents

With four modern processing sites across Europe three specialised in processing cooling and freezing appliances and one site dedicated to recycling plastic flakes from these facilities, we have a combined capacity of nearly 100,000 tonnes annually.