The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) is a publicly available database from the EPA that contains information on toxicchemical releases and other waste management activities reported annually by certain covered industry groups as well as federal facilities. This inventory was established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 (EPCRA) and expanded by the Pollution Prevention Act of 1990. The mission of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment: air, water, and land. ... Toxic redirects here, but this is also the name of a song by Britney Spears; see Toxic (song) Look up toxic and toxicity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 is a United States federal law concerned with emergency response preparedness. ... The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 is a United States federal law concerned with emergency response preparedness. ...
Each year, companies across a wide range of industries (including chemical, mining, paper, oil and gas industries) that produce more than 25,000 pounds or handle more than 10,000 pounds of a listed toxic chemical must report it to the TRI. When the TRI first when into effect, the threshhold was 75,000 pounds annually. If the company treats, recycles, disposes, or releases more than 500 pounds of that chemical into the environment (as opposed to just handling it), then they must provide a detailed inventory of that chemical's inventory.
References
EPA's TRI page
EPA's TRI Explorer page] (for accessing the data)
The Right-to-Know Network for accessing the TRI
Environmental Working Group's report on the TRI rollback
The ToxicsReleaseInventory (TRI) is a database containing detailed information on nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories that over 23,000 industrial and federal facilities manage through disposal or other releases, and waste management for recycling, energy recovery, or treatment.
Release estimates alone are not sufficient to determine exposure or to calculate potential adverse risks to human health and the environment.
TRI data, in conjunction with other information, such as the toxicity of the chemical, the release medium, and site-specific conditions, can be used as a starting point in evaluating exposures that may result from releases of toxicchemicals.
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