Facility detail

GE PLASTICS

1 PLASTICS AVE, PITTSFIELD, MA, 01201

Parent company: GE CO

Carcinogen — EPA classifications across all reporting years

Year-over-year total releases

Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.

Top chemical totals

The 10 chemicals with the highest cumulative on-site releases in pounds (lbs) across all available years.

Full release table

Rows are years. Columns show the five highest-total chemicals across all years plus each year's total release volume.

All values in pounds (lbs)
Year Dichloromethane Toluene Methanol 1,2-Dichlorobenzene Acetophenone Total (lbs)
1998 41,000 41,190
1997 74,100 3,600 16,300 94,240
1996 102,000 3,700 670 106,550
1995 96,000 4,700 4,820 2,290 108,182
1994 107,200 6,300 4,760 690 119,242
1993 35,300 15,200 17,000 67,987
1992 52,500 21,200 18,800 93,146
1991 62,000 20,000 3,200 85,582
1990 32,486 10,353 4,282 47,388
1989 70,710 25,352 12,039 1,205 109,948
1988 47,600 20,170 1,095 70,574
1987 850 2,208

▎ Facilities report to EPA's TRI once they manufacture, process, or use a listed chemical above set thresholds. Once that threshold is crossed, they must report actual releases regardless of size — so a small number reflects genuine low-level discharge, not a data error.