"Forever Chemical" meets its match in West Michigan where North America's first operational PFAS Annihilator Technology resides

A decades old environmental cleanup dilemma in Michigan and across the nation now has an answer with 4Never's closed-loop PFAS solution.

“It’s overwhelming, but it’s very cool to go from where we were six seven years ago to today.” Jim Rosendall and I’m Heritage-Crystal Clean Special Projects Manager.”

“To be able to strip it out of the water, discharge clean water, and destroy the concentrate through the destruction technology and end up with more water, inert salts and carbon dioxide.”

Considering the volume of contamination - and wrapping your mind around the idea of capturing a molecular substance, and not only that, but eliminating it would seem next to impossible. But did we mention science?

“What we developed a four-way partnership to really develop a turnkey solution to managing PFAS contaminated waste streams from cradle to grave.”

Brian Recatto is President and CEO of Heritage-Crystal Clean treating various types of industrial waste at 150 locations in North America and it’s one of the four partnering companies forming the 4NEVER Solution.

“This is a story of first to market with a closed-loop system. First destruction technology and operation. First combined system. First permitted system in North America. It’s exciting to get out of the pilot stage and into operation.”

David Trueba is President and CEO of Revive Environmental. A technology spinout of Columbus-based Battelle Memorial Institute, specializing in scientific solutions. It brought the destruction technology, the PFAS Annihilator, to market.

“Treating PFAS is like looking for the tomato sauce in vegetable soup. You’ve got to understand how much flowrate you’ve got and you’ve got to get rid of the vegetables that might interfere with the processing and destruction of the PFAS. So, what we’ve got to do is do a little bit of pretreatment and then the rest of the materials go into what we call the PFAS Annihilator.”

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