PERI: Toxic 100 Index

Formosa Plastics

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 35
Surface Water releases 2020 (lbs): 5,468
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2020 (lbs): 7,692
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2020: 496,913,402
Percentage of national total 2020 surface water and POTW hazard: 0.1%
EJ: Near Poor Share: 50%
EJ: Minority Share: 64%

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Chemical	Surface water releases (lbs)	POTW transfers (lbs)	Toxic Hazard (quantity x toxicity)	Percent of total company hazard
1,4-Dioxane	0	4,210	421,000,001	84.72%
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processi	415	0	70,550,000	14.20%
1,2-Dichloroethane	34	0	3,094,000	0.62%
Chloroform	273	0	1,665,300	0.34%
Copper compounds (this category does not include copper phthalocyanine compounds that are substituted with only hydrogen, and/or chlorine, and/or brom	227	0	340,500	0.07%
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	262,400	0.05%
Zinc compounds	364	0	1,201	0.00%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia i	4,155	3,482	0	0.00%

For explanations of most columns above, including the EJ Shares, see the technical notes.

Toxic hazard: Pounds of direct releases to surface water and pounds transferred to Publicly Operated Treatment Works (POTW's) reported in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory for the year 2020, weighted by toxicity of chemicals. Weights are from the EPA's Risk-Screening Environmental Indicators project. For details, see technical notes.

Quantity of toxic surface water releases and POTW transfers: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water at each TRI facility or transferred off-site to a POTW, without weighting for toxicity or population.

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