In Argentina, several companies transformed their production systems using elements that replace CFC 11 with liquid carbon dioxide found in the air, which does not pollute the environment. The Autosal company began the production of a refrigerant model that was positioned as the first in continental America and that does not destroy the ozone layer. Costa Rica In Costa Rica, demonstration projects were planned in 1999, exposing the strategies for the use of methyl bromide for cut flowers. In 2004 the Refrigerant Management Plan was approved, which established the strengthening of licenses to import and export elements that destroy the ozone layer and thus comply with the elimination and substitution programs for these components.