TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year

Buick Resource Recycling Facility LLC

Total reported releases 7.7M lb more than doubled year over year (+118%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.

18594 HWY KK, Boss, Missouri · 331492 · Primary Metals · operated by The Renco Group INC

TOTAL RELEASES · 20102024
Bar chart of annual values from 2010 to 2024, in lb. Most recent year (2024): 7.7M.14.4M'10'12'14'16'18'20'22'247.7M
Anomaly engine

Notable Signals

LONG-ARC REGRESSION · LONG-ARC SHIFT

Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)

Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) at Buick Resource Recycling Facility LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).

LONG-ARC REGRESSION · LONG-ARC SHIFT

Total reported releases

Total reported releases at Buick Resource Recycling Facility LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).

LONG-ARC REGRESSION · LONG-ARC SHIFT

Lead And Lead Compounds

Lead And Lead Compounds at Buick Resource Recycling Facility LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).

YEAR-OVER-YEAR SURGE · RELEASE SHIFT

Lead And Lead Compounds

Lead And Lead Compounds releases at Buick Resource Recycling Facility LLC rose from 2.3M lb to 5.9M lb (2.5×) between 2023 and 2024.

Showing the 4 most editorially weighted signals out of 6. Lower-severity signals fold into the chemical breakdown and history charts below.

Chemicals reported · most recent year

What This Facility Releases

PBTCAS N420

Lead And Lead Compounds

5.9M lb · +152% YoY

Lead And Lead Compounds concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.

GENERALCAS N982

Zinc compounds

483k lb · +38% YoY

Zinc compounds concentrations have fallen 40% since 2017.

RESPIRATORYCAS N090

Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region)

420k lb · +53% YoY

Chromium and Chromium Compounds(except for chromite ore mined in the Transvaal Region) concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.

GENERALCAS N040

Barium And Barium Compounds

416k lb · +36% YoY

Barium And Barium Compounds concentrations have fallen 40% since 2017.

RESPIRATORYCAS N450

Manganese And Manganese Compounds

179k lb · +40% YoY

Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have fallen 38% since 2017.

RESPIRATORYCAS N010

Antimony And Antimony Compounds

145k lb · +117% YoY

Antimony And Antimony Compounds concentrations have fallen 15% since 2010.

CARCINOGENCAS N495

Nickel compounds

53k lb · +95% YoY

Nickel compounds concentrations have fallen 22% since 2017.

CARCINOGENCAS N020

Arsenic And Arsenic Compounds

47k lb · +81% YoY

Arsenic And Arsenic Compounds concentrations are up 36% since 2010.

Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics

Who Lives Next To This Facility

Iron County County, MO (no Census block groups within 3 miles — falling back to containing county): a population of 9,538. Why we surface this →

POPULATION SHARE
19.5%

Low-income

POPULATION SHARE
7.7%

People of color

POPULATION SHARE
6.2%

Under age 5

POPULATION SHARE
22.0%

Over age 64

Source: Census ACS 2018-2022 (5-year), county-level fallback. 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.