In the fall, the Ohio EPA challenged companies to reduce their chemical emissions as reported under the Toxic Release Inventory or TRI.

Five plants in Washington County are taking the EPA up on it.

Kraton Polymers plans to reduce their TRI by 20% and reduce wastes treated on site by 15%.

Solvay Advanced Polymers is installing new equipment to cut their TRI emissions in half by 2010.

Eramet is doing construction work on Furnace #1 to reduce emissions by 50%. They're hoping to reduce plant-wide emissions by 20% in five years.

AMP Ohio is focused on finding a beneficial use for the fly ash the plant produce to cut back on the amount of off site disposal.

Energizer Battery has a five year plan to reduce air emissions and off-site disposal.

55 facilities across the state are participating in the voluntary challenge.