EPA TRI Facility · Food
Shearer's Foods
Brewster, OH · Parent: Shearer's Foods
- Total releases
- 10 lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Shearer's Foods: how the 10 lbs splits
10 lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 10 lbs 100.0%
Shearer's Foods's 10 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: Nitric acid.
TRACE volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Shearer's Foods is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Brewster, OH, 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 Ohio's 1,299 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Shearer's Foods is pounds #1185 and chemical-count #1239 at 10 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). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Brewster Cheese Co Inc.; Charter Next Generation - Massillon; Greif Packaging LLC; Kraft Heinz. Similar-scale Food peers outside Ohio: Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc.; Osi Industries LLC; Big Heart Pet Brands; Cedars Mediterranean Foods. Other Shearer's Foods sites in this extract: Shearer's Foods; Shearers Food LLC; Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Nitric acid.
Shearer's Foods stamps TRACE volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) 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.
Shearer's Foods 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
Shearer's Foods in the Food sector extract
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Shearer's Foods reports the 1,322nd-largest volume (10 lbs). Scale peers outside Ohio 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.
Shearer's Foods 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 Shearer's Foods 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).
Shearer's Foods: annual Form-R pounds
TRACE site · AIR pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2021 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Shearer's Foods 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: Nitric acid.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 5 lbs | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Nitric acid | 10 lbs | - |
Shearer's Foods · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Shearer's Foods
Closest other reporters in Ohio - including Brewster Cheese Co Inc., Charter Next Generation - Massillon, Greif Packaging LLC, ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 1,298 other reporting facilities in Ohio.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Ohio - e.g. Wapsie Valley Creamery Inc., Osi Industries LLC, Big Heart Pet Brands.
Other Shearer's Foods Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Shearer's Foods, Shearers Food LLC, Barrel O'Fun Snack Foods Co.
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 Brewster Cheese Co Inc.. Shearer's Foods stamps TRACE 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.
Use and verify this record
This Shearer's Foods TRI extract (TRACE · AIR · CLEAN · lead Nitric acid) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Shearer's Foods totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Brewster, OH, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (3 years). NAICS 311919 · Food. 0.0% of Stark TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Airgas USA LLC (Δ 0 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Shearer's Foods stamps TRACE volume · AIR 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