With the Annihilator and this SAFF technology, we can dispose and eliminate that recycle chain in its tracks.” Now, for the first time commercially in North America, Heritage-Crystal Clean has invested in the technology. That recycles PFAS,” Trueba explained Nexstar’s WOOD. I had to send it to a landfill, a depot injection or an incinerator. We could (concentrate) the PFAS and the materials, but that media had a solid waste factor. “I was at a company where we did a lot of great work with media handling.

Trueba considers the 4never partnership a model to be built upon to truly tackle PFAS contamination. It is a play on the phrase “forever chemicals” - a common reference for PFAS because the compounds can take years to break down naturally. The water is then sent to public water treatment facilities to be put back into the water system. The end result is clean water and salts, usually sodium or potassium. That concentrated material is then run through the “PFAS Annihilator,” which uses super-critical water oxidation, or SCWO, to break the extremely durable PFAS chemical bonds. The raw leachate is pushed through three treatments that separates the PFAS compounds from the leachate.

The facility takes in landfill leachate - essentially rainwater that filters through landfills, collecting chemicals and other contaminants. Revive Environmental President and CEO David Trueba boiled the process down into three main steps. (Matt Jaworowski/WOOD) How does a ‘PFAS Annihilator’ work? From left, Heritage-Crystal Clean President/CEO Brian Recatto, Battelle PFAS Program Manager Amy Dindal, and Revive Environmental President/CEO David Trueba.

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