2000 Dioxin Data from Major Chlorine Producers and Users

Dioxin Data: Source Reduction Activities

The table displays quantities of dioxin: used for energy recovery, treated, recycled and recovered from the environment through remediation activities in 2000¹. Dioxin that is treated is, by far, the largest category in this section. Treatment of dioxin-containing waste is most often accomplished by destruction in hazardous waste incinerators. Hazardous waste incinerators destroy dioxin through high temperature combustion. Dioxin air emissions from these incinerators are regulated under the Clean Air Act and are included in air emissions under the Toxics Release Inventory.

Source Reductions in 2000
	Toxic Equivalents (grams TEQ)	Total Mass (grams TM17)
Energy Recovery (onsite and offsite Sec. 8.2 & 8.3)
Quantity treated on and off-site (Sec. 8.6 & 8.7)
Quantity recycled (on and off-site Sec 8.4 & 8.5)
Quantity of dioxins recovered from the environment through remediation activities and destroyed 2 (Sec 8.8)

¹Figures rounded to two significant figures and totals may not equal sum of individual categories due to rounding.
²Although this TRI category technically includes quantities released to the environment as a result of remedial actions, catastrophic events, or one time events not associated with production processes in the reporting year, chlorine chemical industry respondents here report an amount recovered and destroyed through remediation activities.