Why is EPA interested in expanding TRI to collect materials accounting information under EPCRA?
Communities and public interest groups have indicated to EPA that there are gaps in existing Right-to-Know information and that materials accounting information would be useful, not only to them, but to the government and industry itself. These groups believe that materials accounting data, in the hands of the public, would provide information that would aid in studies on a variety of issues including, but not limited to, trend information on chemical use patterns, the quantity of toxics in products, worker health and safety issues, and promoting and tracking pollution prevention activities. • Why are recycling numbers so large? The recycling numbers are especially large in comparison with amounts of toxic chemical reported as being released to the environment. These amounts are not unexpected, however. Quantities recycled are likely to be much larger than release quantities because the purpose of recycling is to recover the chemical for further use. Unlike the quantities released, whi
