EPA TRI Facility · Food
Cargill Value Added Meats
Waco, TX · Parent: Cargill Inc
- Total releases
- 12.5K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2019
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
AIR Form-R mix
Cargill Value Added Meats: how the 12.5K lbs splits
12.5K lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 12.5K lbs 100.0%
Cargill Value Added Meats's 12.5K 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: Peracetic acid.
LIGHT volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Cargill Value Added Meats is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Waco, TX, in the food sector. It reported 12.5K lbs of releases across 2 chemicals in 2019. That ranks 9,329 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Texas's 2,016 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Cargill Value Added Meats is pounds #899 and chemical-count #1230 at 12.5K lbs. Ascend Performance Materials-Chocolate Bayou Plant leads reported pounds (94.0M lbs) at 36 chemicals (chemical-count #35). Veolia Es Technical Solutions LLC Port Arthur Facility leads chemical count at 246 chemicals (1.5M lbs, pounds #112). Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant; Gholson Ready Mix; Roca Bathroom Products Inc.; Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi LLC Waco Terminal. Similar-scale Food peers outside Texas: Wells Enterprises Inc North Ice Cream Plant; Pilgrim's Pride Ellijay Processing Plant; Nutra Blend Corp; Frito-Lay Inc.(f/k/a Frito-Lay North America). Other Cargill Inc sites in this extract: Cargill Meat Solutions Corp; Cargill Corn Milling; Cargill Inc; Cargill Inc. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Peracetic acid; Ammonia.
Cargill Value Added Meats stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant AIR pathway (100.0% air releases) across 2 chemicals. Cumulative Form-R extract: 12.5K lbs (2019–2019). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Wells Enterprises Inc North Ice Cream Plant and Pilgrim's Pride Ellijay Processing Plant.
Cargill Value Added Meats vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
13K lbs Top 36% higher than 64% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Cargill Value Added Meats: Peracetic acid-led volume
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Cargill Value Added Meats reports the 906th-largest volume (12.5K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Peracetic acid alone is 100% of the total. Scale peers outside Texas include Wells Enterprises Inc North Ice Cream Plant and Pilgrim's Pride Ellijay Processing Plant.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Cargill Value Added Meats's pounds in one chemical - here Peracetic acid at 100%. Not a toxicity score.
Cargill Value Added Meats Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Cargill Value Added Meats releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 12.5K lbs.
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2019). Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Peracetic acid | 12.5K lbs | - |
| Ammonia | 0 lbs | - |
Cargill Value Added Meats · AIR-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Cargill Value Added Meats
Closest other reporters in Texas - including Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant, Gholson Ready Mix, Roca Bathroom Products Inc., ordered by distance.
Showing 8 of 2,015 other reporting facilities in Texas.
Similar Food Facilities
Other Food facilities with similar total release volumes (±80%), outside Texas - e.g. Wells Enterprises Inc North Ice Cream Plant, Pilgrim's Pride Ellijay Processing Plant, Nutra Blend Corp.
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Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Cargill Value Added Meats on cumulative reported pounds (12.5K lbs) and distinct chemical count (2). Release-pound peers include Hitchiner Countergravity Centrifugal Cast Operations (cco), Ir Engraving LLC, Arkema Inc.. 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.
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Similar chemical count
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Other Cargill Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Cargill Meat Solutions Corp, Cargill Corn Milling, Cargill Inc.
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 Peracetic acid, Ammonia; nearby reporters include Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant. Cargill Value Added Meats stamps LIGHT 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.
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This Cargill Value Added Meats TRI extract (LIGHT · AIR · CLEAN · lead Peracetic acid) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Cargill Value Added Meats totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Waco, TX, latest year 2019. NAICS 311615 · Food. 0.1% of Mclennan TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Hitchiner Countergravity Centrifugal Cast Operations (cco) (Δ 7 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Cargill Value Added Meats stamps LIGHT volume · AIR pathway · CLEAN · lead Peracetic 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