EPA TRI Facility · Food
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, IA · Parent: West Liberty Foods LLC
- Total releases
- 6.6K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Latest report
- 2022
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant: how the 6.6K lbs splits
6.6K lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 6.6K lbs 100.0%
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant's 6.6K lbs Form-R total is AIR - air releases is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Ammonia.
LIGHT volume AIR pathway CLEAN
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Mount Pleasant, IA, in the food sector. It reported 1.1K lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2022, and 6.6K lbs in total across its 2019-2022 reporting years. That ranks 10,649 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Iowa's 460 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant is pounds #260 and chemical-count #361 at 6.6K lbs. Climax Molybdenum Co leads reported pounds (16.4M lbs) at 5 chemicals (chemical-count #117). Helena Industries LLC leads chemical count at 32 chemicals (9.4K lbs, pounds #247). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Hearth & Home Technologies LLC; Midwest Precast Concrete (mpc) Enterprises Inc; Contitech USA LLC; W2 Fuel LLC. Similar-scale Food peers outside Iowa: Tyson Prepared Foods - Hutchinson Plant; Brakebush Brothers Inc; Dfa Dairy Brands Fluid LLC DBA Kemps Cultured; H. P. Hood LLC. Other West Liberty Foods LLC sites in this extract: West Liberty Foods L.L.C.; West Liberty Foods Tremonton; West Liberty Foods Bolingbrook Il. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Ammonia.
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 1 chemical. Cumulative Form-R extract: 6.6K lbs (2019–2022). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Tyson Prepared Foods - Hutchinson Plant and Brakebush Brothers Inc.
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
6.6K lbs Top 41% higher than 59% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant: Ammonia-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant reports the 994th-largest volume (6.6K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Ammonia alone is 100% of the total. Scale peers outside Iowa include Tyson Prepared Foods - Hutchinson Plant and Brakebush Brothers Inc.
Concentrated means ≥60% of West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant's pounds in one chemical - here Ammonia at 100%. Not a toxicity score.
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 6.6K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2022, total releases decreased by 69% (3.4K lbs to 1.1K lbs).
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant: annual Form-R pounds
LIGHT site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2022
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
What this shows West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 69% from 2019 to 2022). TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production, waste handling, and reporting changes, not only with controls. Lead chemical in the extract: Ammonia.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 3.4K lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 1.1K lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 1.1K lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 1.1K lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2022). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Ammonia | 6.6K lbs | - |
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant
Closest other reporters in Iowa - including Hearth & Home Technologies LLC, Midwest Precast Concrete (mpc) Enterprises Inc, Contitech USA LLC, ordered by distance.
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Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Iowa - e.g. Tyson Prepared Foods - Hutchinson Plant, Brakebush Brothers Inc, Dfa Dairy Brands Fluid LLC DBA Kemps Cultured.
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant on cumulative reported pounds (6.6K lbs) and distinct chemical count (1). Release-pound peers include Bekaert Corp, Winston Heat Treating Inc, Southwire Co-Mineral Wells Plant. 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.
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other West Liberty Foods LLC Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including West Liberty Foods L.L.C., West Liberty Foods Tremonton, West Liberty Foods Bolingbrook Il.
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 Ammonia; nearby reporters include Hearth & Home Technologies LLC. West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant stamps LIGHT volume · AIR 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 West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant TRI extract (LIGHT · AIR · CLEAN · lead Ammonia) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Mount Pleasant, IA, latest year 2022. Form-R rows span 2019–2022 (4 years). NAICS 311615 · Food. 1.1% of Henry TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Bekaert Corp (Δ 2 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
West Liberty Foods Mount Pleasant stamps LIGHT volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Ammonia. 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