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Rio Tinto

Rank in Toxic 100: 20
Rank among all TRI companies: 49
Air releases 2017 (lbs): 97,613
Incineration transfers 2017 (lbs): 0
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2017: 1,764,907
Percentage of national total 2017 toxic air and incineration score: 0.4%
EJ: Poor Share: 10%
EJ: Minority Share: 29%

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This company is rank 15 on the Toxic 100 Water list.
This company has information in PERI's Greenhouse database.

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Arsenic compounds 3,265 0 1,308,784 74.16% 10.4% 30.9%
Chromium compounds 723 0 404,196 22.90% 8.4% 25.0%
Cadmium compounds 253 0 28,134 1.59% 9.3% 27.8%
Nickel compounds 342 0 10,977 0.62% 9.7% 28.6%
Lead compounds 13,119 0 9,207 0.52% 10.2% 30.3%
Sulfuric acid 37,010 0 2,273 0.13% 9.5% 28.3%
Copper compounds 22,259 0 868 0.05% 10.5% 31.3%
Manganese compounds 505 0 228 0.01% 8.5% 25.1%
Antimony compounds 108 0 89 0.01% 11.2% 32.9%
Zinc compounds 2,738 0 68 0.00% 17.8% 72.0%
Thallium compounds 217 0 51 0.00% 9.3% 27.9%
Naphthalene 43 0 14 0.00% 7.0% 21.7%
Hydrochloric acid 506 0 6 0.00% 11.5% 33.8%
Mercury compounds 11 0 3 0.00% 8.7% 25.5%
Ammonia 15,343 0 3 0.00% 8.6% 25.5%
Selenium compounds 394 0 2 0.00% 11.7% 35.1%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds 0 0 2 0.00% 7.7% 22.8%
Silver compounds 184 0 1 0.00% 10.7% 31.6%
Vanadium compounds 93 0 0 0.00% 9.3% 27.9%
Cresol (mixed isomers) 500 0 0 0.00% 10.0% 30.4%

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