"Morgans" wrote:


"James Robinson" wrote

Certain types of Freon are. Those types are no longer used in new
air conditioning or refrigeration systems. Older systems will still
have
them,
but you can't replace lost fluid if you have a leak.

I think you are wrong about that. Sure, they are nasty things, in how
they combine in the upper atmosphere to eat ozone, but VOC's are
things that burn, and were not burned before they were released,
right?

Volatile Organic Compounds do not have to burn. They simply evaporate
quickly, and can change chemically under the effects of sunlight.

It all just has to do with classifications, and I believe Freon is in
a different classification.

It may simply be classification, but the EPA considers certain types of
Freon to be VOCs. Here is a link to a couple of web sites that list
VOCs, including various types of Freon as examples:

http://www.skcinc.com/cff/1676.pdf
http://www.airquality.lanl.gov/pdf/N...dVOCTable3.pdf