System to ‘annihilate’ PFAS chemicals deployed in Michigan

“Forever chemical” has become a widespread nickname for man-made chemicals like per and poly-fluroalkyl substances (PFAS). The same qualities that made them perfect for non-stick food wrappers and firefighting foam also made them unnaturally persistent in the environment.

The developers of a new technology say they’ve come up with a way to take the “forever” out of PFAS.

The technology comes from Battelle, an independent, nonprofit technology research and development group based in Columbus, Ohio. It has been developed for practical use by Revive Environmental of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and it’s now in operation, dubbed the PFAS Annihilator at Heritage-Crystal Clean, an industrial waste treatment and disposal business, at the company’s Grand Rapids-area facility.

David Trueba, Revive Environmental’s president and CEO, says the system is the first commercial solution of its kind for cleaning up PFAS contamination. “Our mission is to globally restore communities’ confidence by safely and permanently destroying PFAS contamination,” he says.

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