{"id":377,"date":"2022-09-28T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/?p=377"},"modified":"2023-01-24T18:09:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T23:09:20","slug":"1-2-types-of-releases-and-transfers-reported-in-north-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/volumesixteen\/1-2-types-of-releases-and-transfers-reported-in-north-america\/","title":{"rendered":"1.2 Types of Releases and Transfers Reported in North America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Figure 5 <\/strong>presents the different releases and transfers reported between 2014 and 2018.<sup><a href=\"#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup> It shows that the largest proportions were on-site disposal or releases to land, which generally increased during this period (representing between 38 and 43% of total releases and transfers each year). On-site releases to air accounted for approximately 7% of the total for 2018 (compared with about 9% in 2014), while releases to water represented approximately 4% of the total each year (except for 2014).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of off-site transfers, recycling accounted for the largest proportion (approximately 26%) of the total each year; and transfers to disposal (which are examined in greater detail in the feature analysis of this report) accounted for approximately 6% of total releases and transfers each year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\">\n<p><span class=\"ftitle\">Figure 5.<\/span> Releases and Transfers by Type, North America, 2014-2018<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_286\" style=\"width: 2611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"Figure 5. Releases and Transfers by Type, North America, 2014\u20132018\" data-rl_caption=\"* Note about the Taking Stock methodology: data for metals are removed from the Transfers to Treatment, Sewage, and Energy Recovery categories and placed into the Off-site Transfers to Disposal category (see \u201cUnderstanding Taking Stock\u201d).\" title=\"Figure 5. Releases and Transfers by Type, North America, 2014\u20132018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286\" class=\"wp-image-286 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2601\" height=\"1822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN.png 2601w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN-750x525.png 750w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN-768x538.png 768w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN-1536x1076.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN-2048x1435.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/F05P17-Reported-Releases-and-Transfers-in-North-America-2014-2018-Millions-of-kg_EN-785x550.png 785w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2601px) 100vw, 2601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">* Note about the <em>Taking Stock<\/em> methodology: data for metals are removed from the Transfers to Treatment, Sewage, and Energy Recovery categories and placed into the Off-site Transfers to Disposal category (see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/takingstock.cec.org\/content\/landing\/en\/terminology\/\">Understanding <em>Taking Stock<\/em><\/a>\u201d).<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Figure 5 presents the different releases and transfers reported between 2014 and 2018.[3] It shows that the largest proportions were on-site disposal or releases to land, which generally increased during this period (representing between 38 and 43% of total releases and transfers each year). On-site releases to air accounted for approximately 7% of the total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volumesixteen","tag-chapter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cec.org\/tsreports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}