Total reported releases
Total reported releases at Westrock Kraft Paper LLC have more than doubled since 2010 (through 2024).
TRI facility · TRI 2024 reporting year
Westrock Kraft Paper LLC
Total reported releases 1.1M lb rose modestly year over year (+10%). Total releases concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
100 GASTON RD, Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina · 322110 · Paper · operated by Smurfit Westrock US Holding Co
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Notable Signals
Chemicals reported · most recent year
What This Facility Releases
Methanol
Methanol concentrations are up 43% since 2010.
Hydrogen sulfide
Hydrogen sulfide concentrations are roughly unchanged from 2012.
Ammonia
Ammonia concentrations are up 18% since 2010.
Manganese And Manganese Compounds
Manganese And Manganese Compounds concentrations have fallen 12% since 2010.
Acetaldehyde
Acetaldehyde concentrations have fallen 29% since 2010.
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size)
Sulfuric acid (acid aerosols including mists, vapors, gas, fog, and other airborne forms of any particle size) concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Barium And Barium Compounds
Barium And Barium Compounds concentrations are up 49% since 2010.
Phenol
Phenol concentrations have more than doubled since 2010.
Equity context · ACS 2018-2022 block-group demographics
Who Lives Next To This Facility
Within 3 miles of this facility (16 Census block groups, population-weighted demographics): a population of 16,758. Why we surface this →
43.5%
Low-income
44.6%
People of color
7.1%
Under age 5
19.4%
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.