TABLE 2
PROCESSING OF SELECTED U.S. THERMOPLASTICS, BY PRINCIPAL METHODS1
Thousand metric tons)


Year


Extrusion
Weight         Percent


1985'                   7,066             53.7
1990'                    9,725            55.1
1991'                    9,407            54.1
1992'                   10,390            55.0
1993                    11,000            55.1
fltimated. 'Revised.
'Polyethylenes, polypropylene, polystyrene, nylon, and PVC.
Source: Society of the Plastics Industry Inc.


Injection molding
Weight        Percent
2,421          18.4
3,178          18.0
3,107          17.9
3,510          18.6
3,800          19.0


Blow molding
Weight        Percent
1,184          9.0
1,549          8.8
1,566          9.0
1,679          8.9
1,800          9.0


TABLE 3
U.S. PLASTICS, FIBERS, AND RUBBER WORK FORCE
CHARACTERISTICS


Industrial employment (thousands):
Women employed
Men employed
Production workers (thousands)
Average workweek (hours)


1991
178


41.3


136.2


110


42.6


1992
173


F40. 1


'133.9


'r03.6


43.8


1993P
166
39.8
126.2
104.1
44.1


Average hourly earnings (dollars):
Plastics, fibers, and rubber                      14.79            15.37
            15.26
All manufacturing                                 11.18            11.46
            11.76
PPreliminaiy. 'Revised.
Source: Chemical & Engineering News and U.S. Bureau of Iabor Statistics.
TABLE 4
RELEASES AND TRANSFERS FOR THE TOP 50 U.S.
CHEMICALS IN 1992
(Percent of all TRI chemicals)
Total   Total        ~~Percent of
Total           Total      total transfers
releases'      transfers2      recyced
recycled
First-level derivatives:
Benzene                                                0.4             0.1
            6.5
Ethylene                                                1.2             .3
            -
Propylene                                               .7              .1
            -
Toluene                                                6.1             3.0
          22.9
Xylene                                                 3.5             2.6
          34.9
Other organics                                            32.2          
18.6           33.3
Inorganics                                                52.2          
64.4            78.9
Total'                                             96.1            89.1 
         65.7
Total for all TRI chemicals  metric tons      1,443,186       1,977,247 
    1,287,519
'Releass incde fugitive or nonpoint air emissions, stack or point ai emissions,
surface water discharges, under-
ground injcton, and rekaes to land.
2Transferi inchlde tranfe  to publicaly owned treatment works, transfers
to treatment, transfers to disposal,
tran   to energy recovery, transfers to recycling, and other offsite transfers.
STotal represents the percnage for all TRT chenicals.
Source: 1992 Toxics Rekase Inventory, Environmental Protection Agency.


NONRENEWABLE ORGANIC MATERIALS-1993


Total sales
Weight
13,157
17,656
17,374
18,900
19,961








































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