EPA TRI Facility · Food
Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant
Waco, TX · Parent: Jbs USA Holdings Inc
- Total releases
- 9.3K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 2
- Latest report
- 2023
- Primary pathway
- Air Releases
Reported-total composition
How the reported total is distributed
9.3K lbs across all reported pathways
- Air Releases 9.3K lbs 100.0%
The segments reconcile to the cumulative total shown above. Off-site transfers are shown separately from releases to air, water, and land.
LIGHT volume AIR pathway CLEAN
Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Waco, TX, in the food sector. It reported 9.3K lbs of releases across 2 chemicals, summed over every year it filed. That ranks 9,971 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. Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant is pounds #964 and chemical-count #1242 at 9.3K 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: Cargill Value Added Meats; Gholson Ready Mix; Roca Bathroom Products Inc.; Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi LLC Waco Terminal. Similar-scale Food peers outside Texas: Peco Foods Inc - Bay Springs Processing; Upstate Farms Cultured Products LLC; Cobb-Vantress Inc. Feed Mill; Tampa Bay Fisheries Inc. Other Jbs USA Holdings Inc sites in this extract: Swift Prepared Foods - Moberly. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Ammonia; Mixture.
Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant has reported 9.3K lbs of toxic releases across 2 chemicals to the EPA Toxic Release Inventory, based on annual facility disclosures from 2019 through 2023. The facility operates in the Food sector. The primary release pathway is air releases, accounting for 100% of total releases. All release data shown below is self-reported to the EPA under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) Section 313.
Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
9.3K lbs Top 38% higher than 62% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Where this facility sits in the TRI record
Among the 1,979 Food facilities in this database, Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant reports the 956th-largest volume (9.3K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Ammonia alone is 100% of the total.
Placement is computed from reported TRI pounds in this database. Thresholds are fixed across every facility page: concentrated ≥60% of volume in one chemical, county-dominant ≥25% of the county total, carcinogen-heavy ≥50% of pounds. Share-based statements are shown only for sites reporting at least 1,000 lbs, because a share of a very small total is not a meaningful signal. Reported pounds are self-reported estimates and do not measure toxicity or health risk.
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 9.3K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases decreased by 100% (9.3K lbs to 0 lbs).
Reported total releases by year
Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant - annual TRI totals
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Year-over-year reported totals. TRI figures are self-reported estimates and can swing with production levels, waste-rock handling and reporting changes, not only with emissions controls.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 9.3K lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 lbs | 2 |
| 2023 | 0 lbs | 1 |
Location
Nearest TRI Facilities to Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant
Closest other reporters in Texas - including Cargill Value Added Meats, 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. Peco Foods Inc - Bay Springs Processing, Upstate Farms Cultured Products LLC, Cobb-Vantress Inc. Feed Mill.
Compare beyond Texas
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant on cumulative reported pounds (9.3K lbs) and distinct chemical count (2). Release-pound peers include Roger Mills Gas Processing Plant, Lhoist Na of Alabama-Alabaster Plant, Rockland-Bamberg Industries. 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.
- Roger Mills Gas Processing Plant Hammon, OK · Natural Gas Processing 9.3K lbs reported
- Lhoist Na of Alabama-Alabaster Plant Alabaster, AL · Nonmetallic Mineral Product 9.3K lbs reported
- Rockland-Bamberg Industries Bamberg, SC · Textiles 9.3K lbs reported
- Silgan White Cap Corp Richmond, IN · Fabricated Metals 9.3K lbs reported
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Jbs USA Holdings Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Swift Prepared Foods - Moberly.
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 Ammonia, Mixture; nearby reporters include Cargill Value Added Meats. Pilgrim's Pride Corp Waco Processing Plant 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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- 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