West Michigan facility operating first commercial-scale PFAS-destroying technology

Inside a wastewater treatment facility in West Michigan, a first-of-its-kind operation is destroying harmful PFAS chemicals at a commercial scale.

A partnership known as 4never between four organizations — Heritage-Crystal Clean, Revive Environmental, Allonnia and EPOC Enviro — has culminated in the first post-lab solution for destroying PFAS in the U.S., executives say. It’s happening at a Heritage-Crystal Clean site in the Grand Rapids suburb of Wyoming.

The facility is home to a full-scale deployment of Revive Environmental’s PFAS Annihilator Technology, along with SAFF® (Surface Active Foam Fractionation) technology manufactured in Australia by EPOC Enviro.

The facility handles concentrated waste from more than 100,000 gallons of landfill leachate per day. Once the concentrate makes it to the PFAS Annihilator, the harmful PFAS — or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are destroyed in just 10-30 seconds.

“We’re taking a human-created problem and eliminating it in seconds with a human-created solution,” said David Trueba, president and CEO of Revive Environmental. 

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