Section 1: Land Disposal

Land Disposal by Sector

This figure shows that the metal mining sector accounted for the majority of releases to land in 2013. Most releases from metal mines are due to chemicals contained in waste rock. The electric utilities and chemical manufacturing sectors had the next largest releases, accounting for 10% and 9% of total land disposal respectively. On-site releases to land increased from 2012 to 2013 in the metal mining and electric utilities sectors, but remained constant in the chemicals sector.

This page was published in January 2015 and uses the 2013 TRI National Analysis dataset made public in TRI Explorer in October 2014.