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disposed or released to air or water, and less than 1% was recovered for energy use. The pounds managed under each management activity increased over the time period presented. The greatest increase was in recycling, although the annual quantities reported as recycled fluctuated dramatically between 110,000 lbs. and 850,000 lbs. 21 Of the TRI waste managed in 2005, 52% was reported by primary commodity processing facilities, while animal production facilities accounted for 28%. Over the decade, waste managed by these subsectors increased by 84% and 87%, respectively. 22 The quantity of waste that Food & Beverage Manufacturing facilities disposed to land, as reported to TRI, increased from 9.1 million lbs. in 1996 to 20 million lbs. in 2005. When normalized by the value of annual shipments, this represented a 102% increase. As shown in Table 4, nitrate compounds remained the chemicals disposed in the greatest quantity over the 10-year period, accounting for about two-thirds of disposals, and were one of the chemicals most frequently reported as disposed for this sector. Ammonia was also one of the chemicals disposed in the greatest quantity and was the second most frequently reported chemical disposed for this sector. 23 Additional Environmental Management Activities Supply Chain Sustainability Sector manufacturers are increasingly working with their suppliers to improve the environmental sustainability of agricultural production. Traditionally, their efforts have focused on reducing pesticide use through Integrated Pest Management. Projects now include improving water quality as well and reducing soil erosion. Figure 3 TRI Waste Management 1996–2005 1,000,000,000 800,000,000 Disposal or Other Releases 20% Treatment 32% Energy Recovery 18% 1996 total: 422.4 million lbs Recycling 130% 2005 total: 651.2 million lbs 54% Normalized lbs 600,000,000 400,000,000 200,000,000 0 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Notes: 1. Normalized by annual value of shipments. 2. Disposal or other releases include air emissions, water discharges, and land disposals. 3. The fluctuation in recycling was due to the reports filed by a single facility. Sources: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce 52 Food & Beverage Manufacturing 2008 SECTOR PERFORMANCE REPORT
Table 4 Top TRI Disposals 2005 Absolute Number of Pounds Facilities Chemical Reported 1 Reporting 2 Ammonia 1,350,000 3 136 Barium 1,697,000 16 Lead 92,000 37 Manganese 519,000 19 Nitrate Compounds 13,869,000 154 Nitric acid 369,000 29 Zinc 690,000 36 Percentage of Sector Total 93% 4 26% 5 Notes: 1. Total sector disposals: 20 million lbs. 2. 1,195 total TRI reporters in the sector. 3. Red indicates that the chemical is one of the top five chemicals reported in the given category. 4. Chemicals in this list represent 93% of the sector’s disposals. 5. 26% of facilities reported disposals of one or more chemicals in this list. Source: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Conservation In 1998, Unilever developed its good agricultural practice guidelines for palm oil, tea, tomatoes, peas, and spinach, and promoted them to food growers to track progress with 11 sustainable agriculture indicators, such as water, energy, pesticides, and biodiversity. In 2007, the company established guidelines for tea growers and committed to purchase all of its tea from sources meeting those standards. 24 Crop Chemicals Reductions Since 2004, SYSCO has worked with fruit and vegetable suppliers to reduce the use of farm chemicals and fertilizers through pest management techniques and best management practices for fertilizer application. Suppliers report using 100,000 fewer pounds of pesticides and 2.2 million fewer pounds of fertilizers, while improving produce quality and better protecting water quality. 25 2008 SECTOR PERFORMANCE REPORT Food & Beverage Manufacturing 53
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2008 Sector Performance rePort
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table of Contents i Preface 1 Execu
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Key to our work is collaboration wi
Page 8 and 9: Energy Use The eight sectors for wh
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Page 12 and 13: TRI Air Emissions Across Sectors 19
Page 14 and 15: TRI Waste Management Across Sectors
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Page 18 and 19: TABLE 3 Economic Activity Data for
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Page 22 and 23: Presentation 500,000,000 of TRI Was
Page 24 and 25: Cement Manufacturing 1 AT A GLANCE
Page 26 and 27: equires 32% more energy per ton of
Page 28 and 29: Summing the Toxicity Scores for all
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Page 38 and 39: Balanced Water Use at BASF Supply U
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Page 42 and 43: Colleges & universities 1 AT A GLAN
Page 44 and 45: Criteria Air Pollutants Most CAP em
Page 46 and 47: Construction 1 AT A GLANCE 1996-200
Page 48 and 49: Figure 1 Fuel Use for Energy 2002 E
Page 50 and 51: Figure 4 Trends in Construction and
Page 52 and 53: Food & Beverage Manufacturing 1 AT
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Page 60 and 61: Forest Products 1 AT A GLANCE 1996-
Page 62 and 63: 2002 the manufacture of wood produc
Page 64 and 65: emission controls to the pulping, p
Page 66 and 67: Water discharges became a major foc
Page 68 and 69: Iron & Steel 1 AT A GLANCE 1996-200
Page 70 and 71: ton of steel shipped improved over
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Page 76 and 77: Metal Casting 1 AT A GLANCE 1996-20
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Page 84 and 85: Oil & Gas AT A GLANCE 1996-2005 1,2
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Page 90 and 91: Petroleum refining Latest Environme
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Page 96 and 97: Paint & Coatings 1 AT A GLANCE 1996
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Page 102 and 103: Ports 1 AT A GLANCE 2005: 360 publi
Page 104 and 105: Increasing Use of Solar Power The P
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“invasive” if they are capable
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shipbuilding & ship repair 1 AT A G
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of marine coatings. CAPs and GHGs a
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Table 1 Top TRI Air Emissions 2005
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Shipyards’ stormwater runoff is t
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data Sources, Methodologies, and CO
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Facilities described above must rep
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Data Processing RSEI calculates tox
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• Section 6.2: Transfers to other
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Cement Manufacturing 1. Facilities:
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12. Charles Heizenroth, EPA, person
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Forest Products 1. Facilities: Cens
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Public Data Release (PDR) (includes
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Advancing Port Sustainability, Janu
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