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Packaging Corporation of America

Rank among all TRI companies: 553
Air releases 2020 (lbs): 5,455,764
Incineration transfers 2020 (lbs): 0
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2020: 27,248
EJ: Poor Share: 19%
EJ: Minority Share: 28%

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This company is rank 37 on the Toxic 100 Water list.
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Acetaldehyde 306,387 0 10,784 39.58% 19.0% 26.8%
Formaldehyde 58,584 0 6,184 22.70% 17.3% 29.2%
Hydrogen sulfide 370,925 0 6,081 22.32% 22.5% 38.5%
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processi 102 0 2,645 9.71% 15.5% 11.0%
Chlorine dioxide 8,310 0 504 1.85% 16.3% 8.6%
Benzene 12,671 0 425 1.56% 11.8% 10.5%
Chlorine 1,990 0 143 0.52% 16.6% 10.0%
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 28,700 0 134 0.49% 18.9% 11.2%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 324 0 102 0.37% 17.7% 20.2%
Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) 168,923 0 65 0.24% 19.1% 31.1%
Nickel compounds 50 0 63 0.23% 18.9% 11.3%
Manganese compounds 2,678 0 60 0.22% 21.6% 33.3%
Lead compounds 456 0 20 0.07% 20.3% 34.1%
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7)) 1,593 0 20 0.07% 17.4% 20.3%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia i 434,941 0 7 0.03% 17.5% 28.8%
Methanol 3,881,722 0 5 0.02% 22.8% 39.0%
Phenol 119,870 0 3 0.01% 15.7% 18.5%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds (Manufacturing; and the processing or otherwise use of dioxin and dioxin like compounds if the dioxin and dioxin like 0 0 1 0.00% 18.4% 22.0%
Certain glycol ethers 360 0 1 0.00% 17.6% 7.7%
Cresol (mixed isomers) 53,502 0 1 0.00% 17.0% 16.0%
Zinc compounds 1,190 0 0 0.00% 17.3% 19.9%
Mercury compounds 9 0 0 0.00% 16.5% 28.0%
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene 2 0 0 0.00% 24.5% 48.6%
Vanadium compounds 13 0 0 0.00% 16.5% 28.0%
Toluene 2,461 0 0 0.00% 11.6% 10.4%

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