PERI: Toxic 100 Air Polluters Index

Commercial Metals Co.

Rank in Toxic 100 Air Polluters: 99
Rank among all TRI companies: 198
Air releases 2021 (lbs): 73,083
Incineration transfers 2021 (lbs): 0
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2021: 206,999
EJ: Poor Share: 28%
EJ: Minority Share: 40%

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Chemical	Air releases (lbs)	Incineration transfers (lbs)	Toxic Score (quantity x exposure x toxicity x population)	Percent of total company score	EJ: Poor Share	EJ: Minority Share
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processing residue (COPR). COPR is the solid waste remaining after aqueous extraction of oxidized chromite ore that has been combined with soda ash and kiln roasted at approximately 2,000 F.)	1,027	0	157,076	75.88%	28.6%	37.7%
Nickel compounds	616	0	30,566	14.77%	23.9%	52.0%
Manganese compounds	7,309	0	10,047	4.85%	28.1%	37.3%
Lead compounds	3,307	0	8,273	4.00%	25.7%	39.5%
Zinc compounds	58,934	0	607	0.29%	28.6%	36.5%
Mercury compounds	1,049	0	242	0.12%	18.2%	40.9%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.)	839	0	123	0.06%	29.8%	35.6%
Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds (Manufacturing; and the processing or otherwise use of dioxin and dioxin like compounds if the dioxin and dioxin like compounds are present as contaminants in a chemical and if they were created during the manufacturing of that chemical.)	0	0	63	0.03%	17.0%	32.9%
Lead	1	0	1	0.00%	13.1%	33.1%

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