Lead
Lead releases at Safety-Kleen Systems rose from 25k lb to 52k lb (2.0×) between 2023 and 2024.
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Safety-Kleen Systems
Total reported releases 65k lb held roughly steady year over year (+2%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
633 E 138TH ST, Dolton, Illinois · 562211 · Hazardous Waste · operated by Clean Harbors INC
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Notable Signals
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone
N-Methyl-2-pyrrolidone releases at Safety-Kleen Systems fell from 25k lb to 50 lb (100% lower) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Lead
Lead concentrations have more than doubled since 2023.
Toluene
Toluene concentrations are up 82% since 2011.
Xylene (mixed isomers)
Xylene (mixed isomers) concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2011.
Methanol
Methanol concentrations have more than doubled since 2011.
Ethylbenzene
Ethylbenzene concentrations are up 21% since 2011.
Polycyclic aromatic compounds
Polycyclic aromatic compounds concentrations are up 64% since 2021.
Methyl isobutyl ketone
Methyl isobutyl ketone concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2011.
Certain glycol ethers
Certain glycol ethers concentrations have more than halved since 2016.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (83 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 99,534. Why we surface this →
46.9%
Low-income
95.9%
People of color
6.6%
Under age 5
14.0%
Over age 64
Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics, population-weighted across the 3-mile buffer around this facility (from USEPA-clone/EJAM-open blockgroupstats). Indicator-level percentile and EJ-disparity scores are surfaced on the county page and the state page — they describe wider regional exposure burdens, not effects attributable to a single facility.
Source. EPA Toxics Release Inventory · retrieved 2026-05-07. Reporting year 2024. TRI is a federal public-domain dataset under 17 USC §105.
What this is not. TRI quantifies releases reported by the facility under EPCRA §313 — not ambient air or water concentrations measured at receptors. We do not attribute individual health outcomes to specific facilities; that exceeds what the data can support.