For long, developing countries have been dumping sites for low quality and inefficient energy products with poor performance. For the case of refrigerators and air conditioners, this negatively impacts the environment and incur a cost to the user. For instance, some families have the fridges but do not use them due to the high operation costs. In the East African region, chlorofluorocarbons and hydro chlorofluorocarbons are still being used as refrigerants yet they impose negative effects on the environment.
