Food Processing Waste Management Trend in the 2015 TRI National Analysis
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The following graph shows the annual quantities of toxic chemicals managed by the food processing industry.
The following graph shows the annual quantities of toxic chemicals managed by the food processing industry, excluding one soybean processing facility.
From 2005 to 2015:
- Food production increased by 3% (as reported by the Federal Reserve Board, Industrial Production Index for Nondurable Goods).
- While the sector’s production levels have remained relatively steady since 2005, production-related waste increased by 105%.
- Trends in quantities of production-related waste are driven by one soybean processing facility’s reported recycled quantity of n-hexane. Excluding this quantity, production-related waste increased by 31%.
- The proportion of managed waste that is recycled increased from 2005, when 40% of total production-related waste was recycled, to 2015, when 64% was recycled.
- Quantities disposed of or otherwise released declined from 22% of total production-related waste in 2005, to 9% in 2015.
This page was published in January 2017 and uses the 2015 TRI National Analysis dataset made public in TRI Explorer in October 2016.