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Packaging Corporation of America

Rank in Toxic 100 Water: 37
Surface Water releases 2020 (lbs): 1,334,114
POTW (sewerage plant) transfers 2020 (lbs): 0
Total Surface Water and POTW Toxic Hazard 2020: 457,619,803
Percentage of national total 2020 surface water and POTW hazard: 0.1%
EJ: Near Poor Share: 45%
EJ: Minority Share: 5%

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Acetaldehyde 33,029 0 260,929,100 57.02%
Chromium compounds (except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region of South Africa and the unreacted ore component of the chromite ore processi 1,064 0 153,212,000 33.48%
Lead compounds 1,827 0 32,889,600 7.19%
Hydrogen sulfide 1,951 0 3,511,800 0.77%
Polycyclic aromatic compounds 16 0 2,880,000 0.63%
Catechol 228 0 2,051,100 0.45%
Manganese compounds 142,582 0 1,012,332 0.22%
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) 957,329 0 603,118 0.13%
Certain glycol ethers 1,070 0 192,600 0.04%
Vanadium compounds 970 0 135,800 0.03%
Methanol 78,795 0 78,795 0.02%
Nickel compounds 429 0 38,994 0.01%
Zinc compounds 10,960 0 36,168 0.01%
Formaldehyde 5,628 0 28,140 0.01%
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 15,475 0.00%
Mercury compounds 0 0 3,500 0.00%
Formic acid 2,353 0 1,177 0.00%
Phenol 23 0 77 0.00%
Benzene 0 0 20 0.00%
Toluene 1 0 7 0.00%
Ammonia (includes anhydrous ammonia and aqueous ammonia from water dissociable ammonium salts and other sources; 10 percent of total aqueous ammonia i 95,860 0 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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