Waste Management Inc.

Rank among all TRI companies: 931
Air releases 2022 (lbs): 4,092
Incineration transfers 2022 (lbs): 407,184
Total Air and Incineration Toxic Score 2022: 8,611
EJ: Poor Share: 17%
EJ: Minority Share: 84%

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This company is rank 40 on the Greenhouse 100 Polluters list.

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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
Asbestos (friable)	9	0	6,721	78.05%	16.6%	84.3%
Chromium	21	0	759	8.81%	16.2%	85.2%
Arsenic compounds	17	0	311	3.61%	37.0%	72.3%
Arsenic	4	0	237	2.76%	16.9%	83.8%
Nickel	56	0	236	2.74%	16.2%	85.2%
Cobalt	1	0	145	1.69%	16.3%	84.9%
Cobalt compounds	1	0	85	0.98%	16.3%	85.0%
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.)	5	0	38	0.44%	34.2%	70.7%
Cadmium compounds	5	0	30	0.35%	34.2%	70.7%
Nickel compounds	11	0	29	0.34%	18.0%	83.7%
Vanadium (except when contained in an alloy)	121	0	8	0.09%	16.3%	85.0%
Copper	725	0	4	0.05%	15.8%	86.2%
Lead	38	0	4	0.05%	16.2%	85.2%
Polychlorinated biphenyls	2	389	2	0.02%	33.8%	76.6%
Barium	27	0	1	0.01%	16.2%	85.2%
Lead compounds	21	0	0	0.01%	34.2%	70.7%
Zinc (fume or dust)	575	0	0	0.00%	16.2%	85.2%
Aluminum (fume or dust)	82	485	0	0.00%	16.8%	84.0%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds	4	5,163	0	0.00%	16.1%	31.8%
Manganese compounds	5	0	0	0.00%	34.2%	70.7%
Barium compounds (except for barium sulfate (CAS No. 7727-43-7))	5	0	0	0.00%	34.2%	70.7%
Mercury	1	0	0	0.00%	16.3%	84.0%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or bromine.)	10	0	0	0.00%	38.4%	72.9%
Acrylic acid	5	0	0	0.00%	34.4%	70.8%
Zinc compounds	35	0	0	0.00%	16.7%	84.7%
Xylene (mixed isomers)	77	36,753	0	0.00%	15.7%	86.4%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia is reportable under this listing)	416	2	0	0.00%	22.3%	76.4%
Ethylene glycol	1,142	48,147	0	0.00%	15.9%	30.9%
Benzo[g,h,i]perylene	1	17	0	0.00%	16.3%	32.3%
Manganese	0	0	0	0.00%	17.3%	33.9%
Phenol	2	262	0	0.00%	34.9%	71.0%
Methanol	663	177,208	0	0.00%	16.1%	31.3%
Toluene	8	35,382	0	0.00%	17.2%	33.8%
Formaldehyde	0	1,000	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Chlordane	0	175	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Methoxychlor	0	2	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Trypan blue	0	29,300	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Dichloromethane (Methylene chloride)	0	5,130	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Heptachlor	0	175	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene	0	11,250	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Styrene	0	2,350	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Epichlorohydrin	0	866	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Acrylonitrile	0	12	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Vinyl acetate	0	500	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Methyl isobutyl ketone	0	27,997	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Cyclohexane	0	250	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Diethanolamine	0	2,952	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Hexachlorobenzene	0	150	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Hydroquinone	0	12,000	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Paraldehyde	0	5	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Hydrazine	0	250	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Lithium carbonate	0	250	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Pentachlorobenzene	0	78	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone	0	1,000	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Sodium nitrite	0	250	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Hydrogen fluoride (Hydrofluoric acid)	0	250	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Nitric acid	0	6,565	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Toxaphene	0	70	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Diisocyanates	0	505	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)	0	45	0	0.00%	0.0%	0.0%

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