Year-over-year total releases
Reported on-site TRI releases in pounds (lbs), grouped by reporting year.
Facility detail
AMES COPPER GROUP LLC
125 OLD BOILING SPRINGS RD, SHELBY, NC, 28152
Parent company: PRIME MATERIALS RECOVERY INC
Carcinogen
PBT
— EPA classifications across all reporting years
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 | Copper And Copper Compounds | Copper compounds | Zinc compounds | Lead And Lead Compounds | Lead compounds | Total (lbs) |
| 2024 | 723 | — | 122 | 33 | — | 878 |
| 2023 | — | 384 | 63 | 17 | — | 465 |
| 2022 | — | 61 | — | — | 3 | 64 |
▎ 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.