EPA TRI Facility · Food
General Mills
Joplin, MO · Parent: General Mills Inc
- Total releases
- 15.1K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2020
- Primary pathway
- Off-site Transfers
OFFSITE Form-R mix
General Mills: how the 15.1K lbs splits
15.1K lbs across all reported pathways
- Off-site Transfers 14.1K lbs 93.4%
- Air Releases 1.0K lbs 6.6%
General Mills's 15.1K lbs Form-R total is OFFSITE - off-site transfers is 93.4% of the bar. Next segment: air releases at 6.6%. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitric acid.
LIGHT volume OFFSITE pathway CLEAN
General Mills is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Joplin, MO, in the food sector. It reported 15.1K lbs of releases across 2 chemicals, summed over every year it filed. That ranks 8,900 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Missouri's 491 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. General Mills is pounds #218 and chemical-count #296 at 15.1K lbs. Buick Mine/mill leads reported pounds (48.2M lbs) at 8 chemicals (chemical-count #66). Buzzi Unicem Usa-Cape Girardeau leads chemical count at 87 chemicals (904.5K lbs, pounds #44). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Jasper Products; Fag Bearings - a Member of the Schaeffler Group; Tamko Building Products LLC; Precision / Master Made Paints. Similar-scale Food peers outside Missouri: Frito Lay Inc; Schwan Food Co - Pasadena Plant; California Dairies Inc Artesia; Papillion Foods LLC. Other General Mills Inc sites in this extract: General Mills Operations LLC; General Mills Reed City Yoplait Plant; General Mills Operations Inc Yoplait Div; General Mills Inc. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitric acid; Ammonia.
General Mills stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant OFFSITE pathway (93.4% off-site transfers) across 2 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 15.1K lbs (2019–2020). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Frito Lay Inc and Schwan Food Co - Pasadena Plant.
General Mills vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
15K lbs Top 34% higher than 66% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
General Mills: Nitric acid-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, General Mills reports the 862nd-largest volume (15.1K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Nitric acid alone is 91.7% of the total. Scale peers outside Missouri include Frito Lay Inc and Schwan Food Co - Pasadena Plant.
Concentrated means ≥60% of General Mills's pounds in one chemical - here Nitric acid at 91.7%. Not a toxicity score.
General Mills Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How General Mills releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 15.1K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2020, total releases decreased by 100% (15.1K lbs to 0 lbs).
General Mills: annual Form-R pounds
LIGHT site · OFFSITE pathway · TRI years 2019–2020
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
What this shows General Mills year-over-year reported totals (decreased by 100% from 2019 to 2020). 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: Nitric acid.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 15.1K lbs | 2 |
| 2020 | 0 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2020). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitric acid | 13.8K lbs | - |
| Ammonia | 1.3K lbs | - |
General Mills · OFFSITE-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to General Mills
Closest other reporters in Missouri - including Jasper Products, Fag Bearings - a Member of the Schaeffler Group, Tamko Building Products LLC, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 490 other reporting facilities in Missouri.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Missouri - e.g. Frito Lay Inc, Schwan Food Co - Pasadena Plant, California Dairies Inc Artesia.
Compare beyond Missouri
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest General Mills on cumulative reported pounds (15.1K lbs) and distinct chemical count (2). Release-pound peers include Exxonmobil Oil Corp Hammond Terminal, Frito Lay Inc, Chico Plant. Chemical-count peers include Idi Caribe Inc, Suiza Dairy Corp, Edwards Lifesciences Technology Sarl. 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 General Mills Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including General Mills Operations LLC, General Mills Reed City Yoplait Plant, General Mills Operations Inc Yoplait Div.
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, Ammonia; nearby reporters include Jasper Products. General Mills 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.
Use and verify this record
This General Mills TRI extract (LIGHT · OFFSITE · CLEAN · lead Nitric acid) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
General Mills totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Joplin, MO, latest year 2020. Form-R rows span 2019–2020 (2 years). NAICS 311813 · Food. 0.6% of Jasper TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Exxonmobil Oil Corp Hammond Terminal (Δ 3 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
General Mills 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