EPA TRI Facility · Machinery
Costco Optical Lab #190
Auburn, WA · Parent: Costco Wholesale Inc
- Total releases
- 2.7K lbs
- Chemicals reported
- 1
- Carcinogens
- 1
- Primary pathway
- Off-site Transfers
OFFSITE Form-R mix
Costco Optical Lab #190: how the 2.7K lbs splits
2.7K lbs across all reported pathways
- Off-site Transfers 2.7K lbs 100.0%
Costco Optical Lab #190's 2.7K lbs Form-R total is OFFSITE - off-site transfers is 100.0% of the bar. Off-site transfers stay separate from air, water, and land releases. Leading chemical by pounds: Lead.
LIGHT volume OFFSITE pathway CARC-HEAVY
Costco Optical Lab #190 is an EPA Toxics Release Inventory reporter in Auburn, WA, in the machinery sector. It reported 685 lbs of releases across 1 chemical in 2023, and 2.7K lbs in total across its 2019-2023 reporting years. That ranks 12,272 of 25,986 TRI facilities nationwide by cumulative reported pounds, counting each facility over however many years it has filed. In Washington's 311 reporting TRI sites, pounds #1 is not chemical-count #1. Costco Optical Lab #190 is pounds #189 and chemical-count #259 at 2.7K lbs. Lamb Weston Inc Richland Facility leads reported pounds (13.1M lbs) at 3 chemicals (chemical-count #106). Hf Sinclair Puget Sound Refining LLC leads chemical count at 46 chemicals (711.7K lbs, pounds #26). Reported volume rose against 2022. Pounds reported are not a measure of toxicity or health risk. Nearest other TRI reporters: Skills Inc; Fluid Motion LLC; Formula Labs Llc. DBA Formula Corp; Boeing Commercial Airplanes - Auburn. Similar-scale Machinery peers outside Washington: Agco Corp; Ge Co; Cor-Met Inc.; Allied Machine & Engineering Corp. Other Costco Wholesale Inc sites in this extract: Lincoln Premium Poultry; Costco Optical Lab #908; Costco Morris Meat Plant #1239. Largest disclosed chemicals by pounds: Lead.
Costco Optical Lab #190 stamps LIGHT volume with a dominant OFFSITE pathway (100.0% off-site transfers) across 1 chemical · 1 carcinogen-classified. Cumulative Form-R extract: 2.7K lbs (2019–2023). All figures are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates, not measured stack emissions or a health-risk score. Scale peers include Agco Corp and Ge Co.
Costco Optical Lab #190 vs. every reporting TRI facility
Cumulative reported release pounds, with this facility marked in the national distribution
2.7K lbs Top 47% higher than 53% of 25,986 reporting TRI facilities
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Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Toxics Release Inventory · 2023 reporting year
Costco Optical Lab #190: Lead-led volume
Among the 1,186 Machinery facilities in this database, Costco Optical Lab #190 reports the 308th-largest volume (2.7K lbs). Its reported volume is concentrated rather than spread: Lead alone is 100% of the total. Carcinogen-classified chemicals make up 100% of the reported pounds, not just of the chemical count. Scale peers outside Washington include Agco Corp and Ge Co.
Concentrated means ≥60% of Costco Optical Lab #190's pounds in one chemical - here Lead at 100%. Not a toxicity score.
Annual disclosure change
What changed: EPA TRI 2023 reporting year
- Costco Optical Lab #190's total reported releases rose from 436 lb in 2022 to 685 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
- Costco Optical Lab #190's off-site transfers rose from 436 lb in 2022 to 685 lb in 2023, based on EPA TRI filings.
Costco Optical Lab #190 Form-R facts
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How does this facility release toxic chemicals?
How Costco Optical Lab #190 releases toxic chemicals into the environment. Total: 2.7K lbs.
Emissions Trend Summary
From 2019 to 2023, total releases increased by 2% (669 lbs to 685 lbs).
Costco Optical Lab #190: annual Form-R pounds
LIGHT site · OFFSITE pathway · TRI years 2019–2023
- 2019 0
- 2020 0
- 2021 0
- 2022 0
- 2023 0
What this shows Costco Optical Lab #190 year-over-year reported totals (increased by 2% 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: Lead.
| Year | Total | Chemicals |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 669 lbs | 1 |
| 2020 | 409 lbs | 1 |
| 2021 | 548 lbs | 1 |
| 2022 | 436 lbs | 1 |
| 2023 | 685 lbs | 1 |
Chemical Releases
Aggregated across all reporting years (2019–2023). 1 of 1 chemicals are carcinogens. Sorted by total release volume.
| Chemical | Total | Flags |
|---|---|---|
| Lead | 2.7K lbs | Carcinogen |
Costco Optical Lab #190 · OFFSITE-pathway site
Nearest TRI Facilities to Costco Optical Lab #190
Closest other reporters in Washington - including Skills Inc, Fluid Motion LLC, Formula Labs Llc. DBA Formula Corp, ordered by distance.
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Compare beyond Washington
Nationwide peers by reported pounds & chemical count
Cross-state TRI reporters nearest Costco Optical Lab #190 on cumulative reported pounds (2.7K lbs) and distinct chemical count (1). Release-pound peers include Chicago Faucets, Doncasters Inc Precision Castings New England, Usalco Baltimore Plant LLC. 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.
Similar chemical count
Nearest out-of-state reporters by distinct Form-R chemicals (deduped against the release-pound neighborhood).
Other Costco Wholesale Inc Facilities
Same-parent TRI sites ranked by reported releases - including Lincoln Premium Poultry, Costco Optical Lab #908, Costco Morris Meat Plant #1239.
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 Lead; nearby reporters include Skills Inc. Costco Optical Lab #190 stamps LIGHT volume · OFFSITE pathway · CARC-HEAVY 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 Costco Optical Lab #190 TRI extract (LIGHT · OFFSITE · CARC-HEAVY · lead Lead) joins EPA Form-R filings with facility identity - reported pounds, not a health-risk rating.
Costco Optical Lab #190 totals are self-reported EPCRA §313 estimates for Auburn, WA, latest year 2023. Form-R rows span 2019–2023 (5 years). NAICS 333314 · Machinery. 0.0% of King TRI pounds in this extract. Nearest ABS peer: Chicago Faucets (Δ 1 lbs). Pounds ≠ exposure.
Costco Optical Lab #190 stamps LIGHT volume · OFFSITE pathway · CARC-HEAVY · lead Lead. 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