Share of industrial chemical waste disposal in the U.S. 2021, by method
disposed of or otherwise released, out of which 65 percent was through on-site land disposal. Meanwhile, on-site air releases accounted for an additional 17 percent of the production-related TRI chemical waste disposed in the U.S. that year.
In 2021, a total of 29.3 billion pounds of production-related TRI-listed chemical waste were managed in the United States. Around 11 percent of this volume was