EPA TRI Facility · Food
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility
Strawberry Plains, TN · Parent: Darling Ingredients Inc.
- Total releases
- 13.9K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Latest report
- 2019
- Primary pathway
- Land Disposal
LAND Form-R mix
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility: how the 13.9K lbs splits
13.9K lbs across all reported pathways
- Land Disposal 13.9K lbs 100.0%
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility's 13.9K lbs Form-R total is LAND - land disposal is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Chlorine dioxide.
LIGHT volume LAND pathway CLEAN
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Strawberry Plains, TN, in the food sector. It reported 13.9K lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2019. That ranks 9,066 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Tennessee's 595 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility is pounds #277 and chemical-count #499 at 13.9K lbs. Nyrstar Clarksville Inc leads reported pounds (72.9M lbs) at 13 chemicals (chemical-count #31). Tradebe Treatment & Recycling of Tn leads chemical count at 75 chemicals (6.3M lbs, pounds #13). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Nyrstar- Immel Mine; Exedy America Corp; Cemex Construction Materials Atlantic LLC; Nystar - Young Mine & Mill. Similar-scale Food peers outside Tennessee: Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp; Cass Clay Creamery Inc; Unisea Inc.; Conagra Foods - Sylvester. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Chlorine dioxide.
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant LAND pathway (100.0% land disposal) across 1 chemical. Cumulative Form-R extract: 13.9K lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp and Cass Clay Creamery Inc.
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
14K lbs Top 35% higher than 65% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility: Chlorine dioxide-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility reports the 880th-largest volume (13.9K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Chlorine dioxide alone is 100% of the total. Scale peers outside Tennessee include Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp and Cass Clay Creamery Inc.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility's pounds in one chemical - here Chlorine dioxide at 100%. Not a toxicity score.
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 13.9K lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Chlorine dioxide | 13.9K lbs | - |
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility · LAND-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility
Closest other reporters in Tennessee - including Nyrstar- Immel Mine, Exedy America Corp, Cemex Construction Materials Atlantic LLC, ordered by distance.
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Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Tennessee - e.g. Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp, Cass Clay Creamery Inc, Unisea Inc..
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility on cumulative reported pounds (13.9K lbs) and distinct chemical count (1). Release-pound peers include Tarr Acquisition LLC, Sun Chemical Corp, Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. 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.
- Tarr Acquisition LLC Phoenix, AZ · Chemical Wholesalers 13.9K lbs reported
- Sun Chemical Corp Colonial Heights, VA · Chemicals 13.9K lbs reported
- Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp Cudahy, WI · Food 13.9K lbs reported
- Avient Colorants USA LLC - Minneapolis Facility New Hope, MN · Chemicals 13.9K lbs reported
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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 Chlorine dioxide; nearby reporters include Nyrstar- Immel Mine. Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility stamps LIGHT volume · LAND 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 Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility TRI extract (LIGHT · LAND · CLEAN · lead Chlorine dioxide) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Strawberry Plains, TN, latest year 2019. NAICS 311613 · Food. 0.1% of Knox TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Tarr Acquisition LLC (Δ 1 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Darling Ingredients Knoxville Facility stamps LIGHT volume · LAND pathway · CLEAN · lead Chlorine dioxide. 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