EPA TRI Facility · Paper
Essity Operations Wausau LLC
Middletown, OH · Parent: Wausau Paper Corp
- Total releases
- 29.7K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 7
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Water Discharges
WATER Form-R mix
Essity Operations Wausau LLC: how the 29.7K lbs splits
29.7K lbs across all reported pathways
- Water Discharges 21.5K lbs 72.4%
- Off-site Transfers 6.5K lbs 22.0%
- Air Releases 1.7K lbs 5.6%
- Land Disposal 0 lbs <0.1%
Essity Operations Wausau LLC's 29.7K lbs Form-R total is WATER - water discharges is 72.4% of the bar. Next segment: off-site transfers at 22.0%. Leading chemical by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
LIGHT volume WATER pathway CLEAN
Essity Operations Wausau LLC is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Middletown, OH, in the paper sector. It reported 10.3K lbs of releases across 3 chemicals in 2023, and 29.7K lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 7,338 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Ohio's 1,299 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Essity Operations Wausau LLC is pounds #482 and chemical-count #231 at 29.7K lbs. Ineos Nitriles USA LLC leads reported pounds (42.4M lbs) at 31 chemicals (chemical-count #10). Heritage Thermal Services leads chemical count at 217 chemicals (431.4K lbs, pounds #116). Reported volume rose against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Graphic Packaging International Inc.; Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.; Bluescope Coated Products LLC; Evertz Technology Services Inc.. Similar-scale Paper peers outside Ohio: 3M Co; Berry Specialty Tapes LLC; Chromasource Inc; Abx Solutions LLC. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution); Zinc compounds; Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size); Lead And Lead Compounds.
Essity Operations Wausau LLC stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant WATER pathway (72.4% water discharges) across 7 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 29.7K lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include 3M Co and Berry Specialty Tapes LLC.
Essity Operations Wausau LLC vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
30K lbs Top 28% higher than 72% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Essity Operations Wausau LLC: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)-led volume
Among the 384 Paper facilities in this database, Essity Operations Wausau LLC reports the 218th-largest volume (29.7K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) alone is 72.8% of the total. Scale peers outside Ohio include 3M Co and Berry Specialty Tapes LLC.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Essity Operations Wausau LLC's pounds in one chemical - here Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) at 72.8%. Not a toxicity score.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Essity Operations Wausau LLC's total reported releases rose from 3.4 thousand lb in 2022 to 10.3 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Essity Operations Wausau LLC's off-site transfers rose from 252 lb in 2022 to 6.0 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Essity Operations Wausau LLC's chemicals reported rose from 2 in 2022 to 3 in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Essity Operations Wausau LLC's water releases rose from 3.1 thousand lb in 2022 to 4.4 thousand lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Essity Operations Wausau LLC Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Essity Operations Wausau LLC releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 29.7K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases increased by 24% (8.3K lbs to 10.3K lbs).
Essity Operations Wausau LLC: annual Form-R pounds
LIGHT site · WATER pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Essity Operations Wausau LLC year-over-year reported totals (increased by 24% 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: Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution).
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 8.3K lbs | 4 |
| 2020 | 3.2K lbs | 3 |
| 2021 | 4.4K lbs | 4 |
| 2022 | 3.4K lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 10.3K lbs | 3 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) | 21.6K lbs | - |
| Zinc compounds | 5.9K lbs | - |
| Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) | 1.6K lbs | - |
| Lead And Lead Compounds | 325 lbs | - |
| Lead compounds | 211 lbs | - |
| Mercury And Mercury Compounds | 1 lbs | - |
| Mercury compounds | 1 lbs | - |
Essity Operations Wausau LLC · WATER-pathway site
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Closest other reporters in Ohio - including Graphic Packaging International Inc., Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Bluescope Coated Products LLC, ordered by distance.
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Similar Paper Facilities
Other Paper facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Ohio - e.g. 3M Co, Berry Specialty Tapes LLC, Chromasource Inc.
Compare beyond Ohio
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Essity Operations Wausau LLC on cumulative reported pounds (29.7K lbs) and distinct chemical count (7). Release-pound peers include US Navy Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Base, Sterling Gas Plant, Terex Washington Awp Div Genie Industries. Chemical-count peers include Hubbell Caribe Ltd, Celanese Microcircuits Industries Ltd., Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority. 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.
- US Navy Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Base Yorktown, VA · Other 29.7K lbs reported
- Sterling Gas Plant Sterling City, TX · Natural Gas Processing 29.7K lbs reported
- Terex Washington Awp Div Genie Industries Moses Lake, WA · Machinery 29.7K lbs reported
- Pfanstiehl Inc Waukegan, IL · Chemicals 29.6K lbs reported
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
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 Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution), Zinc compounds, Hydrochloric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size), Lead And Lead Compounds; nearby reporters include Graphic Packaging International Inc.. Essity Operations Wausau LLC stamps LIGHT volume · WATER 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 Essity Operations Wausau LLC TRI extract (LIGHT · WATER · CLEAN · lead Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Essity Operations Wausau LLC totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Middletown, OH, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 322121 · Paper. 0.3% of Butler TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: US Navy Yorktown Naval Weapons Station Base (Δ 37 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Essity Operations Wausau LLC stamps LIGHT volume · WATER pathway · CLEAN · lead Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution). 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