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Formosa Plastics

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 30
Surface Water releases 2017 (lbs): 4,308
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2017 (lbs): 9,341
Pounds released post-treatment 2017 (lbs): 9,119
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2017: 539,401,344
Percentage of national total 2017 surface water and POTW hazard: 0.2%

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This company is rank 60 on the Toxic 100 Air list.
This company has information in PERI's Greenhouse database.

Chemicals at facilities displayed below: (
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NAN YA PLASTICS CORP AMERICA LAKE CITY SC 1,4-Dioxane 0 7,413 4,038 403,786,119 74.86%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Chromium compounds 131 0 131 65,500,000 12.14%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE LA Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds 0 0 0 41,307,162 7.66%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX 1,2-Dichloroethane 163 0 163 14,833,000 2.75%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Dioxin and dioxin-like compounds 0 0 0 11,790,590 2.19%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP DE DELAWARE CITY DE Vinyl chloride 1 0 1 907,350 0.17%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Chloroform 97 0 97 591,700 0.11%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Copper compounds 292 0 292 438,000 0.08%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE LA 1,2-Dichloroethane 2 0 2 182,000 0.03%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP LOUISIANA BATON ROUGE LA Copper compounds 42 0 42 63,000 0.01%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Zinc compounds 646 0 646 2,132 0.00%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Chlorine 29 0 29 290 0.00%
FORMOSA PLASTICS CORP TEXAS POINT COMFORT TX Ammonia 2,905 0 2,905 0 0.00%
NAN YA PLASTICS CORP AMERICA LAKE CITY SC Ammonia 0 1,928 773 0 0.00%

Toxic hazard: Pounds of direct releases to surface water and estimated releases from transfers to Publicly Operated Treatment Works (POTW's) reported in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Toxics Release Inventory for the year 2017, 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.

Quantity of toxic post-treatment releases: Pounds of toxic chemicals released directly to surface water plus released after treatment at POTW's.

* Split: if 50% appears in this column, then the facility's releases have been split among two 50/50% ownership parent companies for their parent company data, although the full pounds and hazard are displayed here.

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