EPA TRI Facility · Food
Ice Cream Specialties
Lafayette, IN · Parent: Prairie Farms Dairy Inc
- Total releases
- 13.5K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Latest report
- 2019
- Primary pathway
- Off-site Transfers
OFFSITE Form-R mix
Ice Cream Specialties: how the 13.5K lbs splits
13.5K lbs across all reported pathways
- Off-site Transfers 13.5K lbs 100.0%
Ice Cream Specialties's 13.5K lbs Form-R total is OFFSITE - off-site transfers is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitric acid.
LIGHT volume OFFSITE pathway CLEAN
Ice Cream Specialties is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Lafayette, IN, in the food sector. It reported 13.5K lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2019. That ranks 9,150 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Indiana's 871 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Ice Cream Specialties is pounds #424 and chemical-count #731 at 13.5K lbs. Uss Gary Works leads reported pounds (77.4M lbs) at 36 chemicals (chemical-count #9). Tradebe Treatment & Recycling LLC leads chemical count at 98 chemicals (11.9M lbs, pounds #12). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Dana DBA Fairfield Manufacturing Co. Inc.; Perry Foam Products; Rea Magnet Wire Co; Wabash National L.P.. Similar-scale Food peers outside Indiana: Nestle USA Inc.; Ridley USA Inc (dba Ridley Feed Ingredients); West Liberty Foods Tremonton; Prairie Farms. Other Prairie Farms Dairy Inc sites in this extract: Prairie Farms Dairy Inc; Prairie Farms Dairy Inc; Prairie Farms-Rockford; Hiland Dairy Foods Co. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitric acid.
Ice Cream Specialties stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant OFFSITE pathway (100.0% off-site transfers) across 1 chemical. Cumulative Form-R extract: 13.5K lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Nestle USA Inc. and Ridley USA Inc (dba Ridley Feed Ingredients).
Ice Cream Specialties vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
13K lbs Top 35% higher than 65% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Ice Cream Specialties: Nitric acid-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Ice Cream Specialties reports the 887th-largest volume (13.5K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Nitric acid alone is 100% of the total. Scale peers outside Indiana include Nestle USA Inc. and Ridley USA Inc (dba Ridley Feed Ingredients).
Concentrated means ≥60% of Ice Cream Specialties's pounds in one chemical - here Nitric acid at 100%. Not a toxicity score.
Ice Cream Specialties Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Ice Cream Specialties releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 13.5K lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitric acid | 13.5K lbs | - |
Ice Cream Specialties · OFFSITE-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Ice Cream Specialties
Closest other reporters in Indiana - including Dana DBA Fairfield Manufacturing Co. Inc., Perry Foam Products, Rea Magnet Wire Co, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 870 other reporting facilities in Indiana.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Indiana - e.g. Nestle USA Inc., Ridley USA Inc (dba Ridley Feed Ingredients), West Liberty Foods Tremonton.
Compare beyond Indiana
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Ice Cream Specialties on cumulative reported pounds (13.5K lbs) and distinct chemical count (1). Release-pound peers include Platteville Gas Plant, Thombert Inc., American Foundry Group LLC - Bixby. Chemical-count peers include Ecoelectrica LP, Planta Penuelas, Tallaboa Puerto Rico LLC. Neighborhoods are forced disjoint so each axis surfaces a different set of sites.
Similar reported release pounds
Nearest out-of-state reporters (≥1,000 lbs) by absolute TRI pounds, not same-industry or same-county neighbors.
- Platteville Gas Plant Platteville, CO · Natural Gas Processing 13.5K lbs reported
- Thombert Inc. Newton, IA · Plastics and Rubber 13.5K lbs reported
- American Foundry Group LLC - Bixby Bixby, OK · Primary Metals 13.5K lbs reported
- Univar Solutions USA Anchorage, AK · Chemical Wholesalers 13.4K lbs reported
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Prairie Farms Dairy Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Prairie Farms Dairy Inc, Prairie Farms Dairy Inc, Prairie Farms-Rockford.
About TRI Data
Data as of 2023 reporting year. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Toxic Release Inventory.
On this page the largest disclosed chemicals include Nitric acid; nearby reporters include Dana DBA Fairfield Manufacturing Co. Inc.. Ice Cream Specialties stamps LIGHT volume · OFFSITE pathway · CLEAN carcinogen-lbs on this Form-R extract. Totals are self-reported estimates under EPCRA §313, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score.
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This Ice Cream Specialties TRI extract (LIGHT · OFFSITE · CLEAN · lead Nitric acid) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Ice Cream Specialties totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Lafayette, IN, latest year 2019. NAICS 311520 · Food. 0.1% of Tippecanoe TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Platteville Gas Plant (Δ 1 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Ice Cream Specialties stamps LIGHT volume · OFFSITE pathway · CLEAN · lead Nitric acid. PlainEnviro renders this EPA Form-R extract from its pipeline; no figure is typed in by an editor. Corrections: editorial policy.
All federal data sources used on this page
- EPA Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) Basic Data Files - annual self-reported chemical-release filings. epa.gov
- EPA TRI Program reference - how chemicals and reported releases are counted. epa.gov
- EPA Facility Registry Service - facility location and identity. epa.gov
- EPA ECHO - regulatory and compliance context. epa.gov
- EPA Envirofacts - the EPA data warehouse exposing these datasets. epa.gov