Is it being hoarded? Is it being vented? Is potentially contaminated refrigerant going right back into a system?
At the Mid-Year Business Conference of the Heating, Airconditioning & Refrigeration Distributors International (HARDI), distributors didn't want to go on the record with their opinions, but they did want to better educate their contractor customers - as well as themselves - in the importance of bringing in any suspect R-22 recovered from a system for a purity analysis and, if necessary, reclamation.