Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Darling Ingredients Inc.- Linkwood Facility have more than doubled since 2014 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Darling Ingredients Inc.- Linkwood Facility
Total reported releases 1.6M lb rose sharply year over year (+42%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2014.
5420 LINKWOOD RD, Linkwood, Maryland · 311613 · Food · operated by Darling Ingredients INC
Anomaly engine
Notable Signals
Ammonia
Ammonia releases at Darling Ingredients Inc.- Linkwood Facility rose from 8k lb to 28k lb (3.5×) between 2023 and 2024.
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are up 20% since 2018.
Chlorine dioxide
Chlorine dioxide concentrations have more than doubled since 2016.
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution)
Nitrate compounds (water dissociable; reportable only when in aqueous solution) volumes here are too small to anchor a multi-year trend; YoY movement is still shown above.
Chlorine
Chlorine concentrations are up 92% since 2016.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations have more than doubled since 2016.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (2 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 1,835. Why we surface this →
22.2%
Low-income
22.0%
People of color
3.7%
Under age 5
28.7%
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.