EPA TRI Facility · Food
Big Heart Pet Brands
Topeka, KS · Parent: The Jm Smucker Co
- Total releases
- 10 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Off-site Transfers
OFFSITE Form-R mix
Big Heart Pet Brands: how the 10 lbs splits
10 lbs across all reported pathways
- Off-site Transfers 10 lbs 100.0%
Big Heart Pet Brands's 10 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: Zinc compounds.
TRACE volume OFFSITE pathway CLEAN
Big Heart Pet Brands is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Topeka, KS, in the food sector. It reported 10 lbs of releases across 1 chemical, summed over every year it filed. That ranks 18,513 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Kansas's 317 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Big Heart Pet Brands is pounds #287 and chemical-count #295 at 10 lbs. Ecovyst Catalyst Technologies LLC leads reported pounds (19.3M lbs) at 9 chemicals (chemical-count #32). Ash Grove Cement Co leads chemical count at 45 chemicals (929.5K lbs, pounds #26). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Oldcastle Precast Inc; The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co; Concrete Supply of Topeka; Kansas Sand & Concrete Inc. Similar-scale Food peers outside Kansas: Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.; Osi Industries LLC; Cedars Mediterranean Foods; Cedars Mediterranean Foods Inc. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Zinc compounds.
Big Heart Pet Brands stamps TRACE volume with a dominant OFFSITE pathway (100.0% off-site transfers) across 1 chemical. Cumulative Form-R extract: 10 lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. and Osi Industries LLC.
Big Heart Pet Brands vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
10 lbs 29th percentile higher than 29% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Big Heart Pet Brands in the Food sector extract
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Big Heart Pet Brands reports the 1,322nd-largest volume (10 lbs). Scale peers outside Kansas include Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc. and Osi Industries LLC.
Sector rank uses reported TRI pounds only. Share callouts need ≥1,000 lbs so tiny totals cannot mint a false signal.
Big Heart Pet Brands Form-R facts
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Comparison reflects reported pounds and chemical counts, not toxicity or health risk. Averages cover facilities reporting any release.
How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Big Heart Pet Brands releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 10 lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 100% (5 lbs to 0 lbs).
Big Heart Pet Brands: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · OFFSITE pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Big Heart Pet Brands year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 100% from 2019 to 2023). 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: Zinc compounds.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 5 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Zinc compounds | 10 lbs | - |
Big Heart Pet Brands · OFFSITE-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Big Heart Pet Brands
Closest other reporters in Kansas - including Oldcastle Precast Inc, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, Concrete Supply of Topeka, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 316 other reporting facilities in Kansas.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Kansas - e.g. Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc., Osi Industries LLC, Cedars Mediterranean Foods.
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 Zinc compounds; nearby reporters include Oldcastle Precast Inc. Big Heart Pet Brands stamps TRACE 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 Big Heart Pet Brands TRI extract (TRACE · OFFSITE · CLEAN · lead Zinc compounds) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Big Heart Pet Brands totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Topeka, KS, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 311111 · Food. 0.0% of Shawnee TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Airgas USA LLC (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Big Heart Pet Brands stamps TRACE volume · OFFSITE pathway · CLEAN · lead Zinc compounds. 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