Time to say goodbye to that old basement fridge?

Thanks for the information! I only wish provinces outside of Ontario had been included in the article.

I got news for you people out there the 150.00 dollars you save on that new fridge is a fake. First the new fridge will only last about 4 to 8 years max and you paid big bucks for this new fridge just to get rid of a fridge that already worked fine. second the old fridge is 11+ years old maybe even 20 years old and also when you acctually have a real tech person look into it the savings are know where near what they claim.

Funny thing is I have the specs for my OLDER fridge it is MORE efficant than energy star! That is proved by the specs, goverment AND seller I agree with Niccon my family and friends have bought new applicances just to see them spend even more in 4 yrs or so

FYI new fridges are NOT meant to last 4 to 8 years!!! They have a 10-12 years life expectancy. ( but expect repairs on it ) and YES they actually are more energy efficient if you pick a new fridge similar size and style as you existing one ( and I know what I'm talking about since that's what I do for a living!! )

and Diane .. a lot of stores will pick up your old appliances for free , in every province , when you buy a new one

My experience is that old is more enduring than the new. That's just my experience.
To "Evie"...you say "10-12 years"...as if that's a good thing. lol I'm in my 40's and my parents appliances would last 20-25 years. So, to me, a decade is not alot.
You also say "expect repairs." Well, although the older stuff needed repairs the odd time (very few), when I compare to the new appliances I have bought in the past decade...the older is much more enduring. Now...if you can make new appliances, that are energy efficient, last at least 2 decades and DON'T break down...THEN, you have my attention!

I had worked in the repair business for 23 years. One thing to keep in mind, the old appliances use to be build in Canada or USA. There was good quality work put into these older units, then free trade came!
As we all know factories started moving to Mexico and now some will be in China. When that took place the quality was no longer on manufactures minds! I know some will argue this point, but when you are being paid a dollar an hour or less to work on and assemble line your not worried about quality! Retailers will certainly not agree due to the fact that there profits went up tremendously with the cheep labor rates and will still claim that the quality is still there. One personal experence, we had bought a washer that lasted 20 years and never had any repairs made in it. After 20 years it gave up and we bought a new washer and guess what, barly two years after it was bought it broke down and needed a major repair! End of story!

"Energy savings" and "Green" are almost alway nothing more than marketing trickery. Energy saving and green benefit will rarely occur

Want to save the environment & some $? Take your old CDN/ USA built beer fridge, get the seal replaced & have some foil backed insulation added to the outside of the fridge. Volia~ better efficiency, no polluting ship coming from China AND it'll probably still last another 20 years. Appliance advice from a retailer is like marriage advice from a divorce lawyer.

I give credit to all of the people that spoke their mind on this situations. Why, you ask?

It doesn't matter what walk of life they come from, if they agree or disagree, they all had something in common.

They can't spell worth a s..t! To heck with the complaints about appliances, let's start with the education system.

PS: I just purchased a new stove and I feel that it is definitely an improvement!

This article fails to mention that the Great Refrigerator Roundup will not pickup fridges from condo apartment buildings, even if they are brought downstairs and placed on the loading dock/curb. It's total discrimination that they will haul it out of your basement, but they will not pick up from apartments. All Ontario taxpayers pay for this program, but only some of them benefit due to the arbitrary rules.

Thanks, but it's common sense to do this

Excuse me, but paying $180 per year to run that old basement refridgerator is ridiculously insignificant.Come on, get real!!!! The time I have spent in typing this post cost me more that $180 in my time. I will never replace mine because the VIR is too low. The energy saving will never justify the cost of new unit.

Quebec picks up the fridge for free & pays $60 to boot. However, since I am over 70 yrs old, I would want the 3 yr savings to cover the cost of a new fridge. We use it for insulin and for the zero calorie soft-drinks (also some beer). A great GE No Frost from the 60's. Never any trouble in 50 yrs! Not getting a new one now.

I don't know if you still remember the black out a few year ago. Our power supply system overloaded. Then a lot of energy saving promotion come out. We change a lot of our conventional light blub to energy saving light blub. Upgrade our house insulation to make it more energy efficient (lower air condition power consumption). The campang was too successful. I remember there was a report come out saying that we saved on 10% to 15% of our power consumption, compared to prior year. About 1 year later, hydro one ask for more money (less electricty consumpted), a droping of 10% to 15% of revenue. Then smart meter come out to help them milking more money.
Even though, Hydro One keep saying higher oil price and maintenance of existing power grid, but I full believed the 10% to 15% of revenue droping contributed a power boot to the price increase.
Sometime, I just wondering should we save energy for another price increase? I support save energy and go green. However, our government should co-ordinate with their crown corporate, if our energy saving promotion too successful again (lost another 10% to 15% of revenue [energy saving]), shall we have another price increase?
I know our long term goal is net zero housing (zero power consumption house). I believe our technology can achieve that. How about the commercial driving power? Hydro One, oil company lost revenue. Our government have less corporate tax from oil company and revenue from Hydro One. Tax us again?

Hello,
I before becoming disabled used to repair my parents old appliances, & the parts were plentiful from the curbside (stove element, dryer element, timer switch for a washing machine etc.).
They didn't break often but I kept them going for 40 years or so. Now the appliances are garbage, very cheesily made, noisy. What's up with the textured panels on newer fridges? Hard to keep clean.
Our new gas stove eats igniters that are $80 + tax, $40 for a guy to show up, & $90 labour to change these. You can't even use a match to light it because the igniter is also used to determine if there is a flame-it's tied to the electronic clock which crapped out so the oven was useless after 6 years & no replacements or repair was available- I changed the oven temp down switch with one from a old vcr, not exact but worked fine.

I have an old microwave that came from the trash in 1993 & am still using it, it was clean. I fixed it with a $1.50 part then ordered a front tempered glass from the glass store for $13-it got broken when tossed I assume or vandals, but it is still in use today.

The junk & I'm refering to all appliances are obsolete far to quickly including all the computers, ipods etc. they aren't worth stopping to pick from the dumpster

In short there is nothing green about tossing stuff just to get new stuff because of planned obsolescence.

Just more bullcrap from a government that has NO business in this,it is all a scam,this green business is all about the green coming from your pocket,i don't and never will believe anything these gov say,time for people to wake up before it is to late,talk about a bunch of sheep being led to the slaughter.