Waste Dive Covers Revive Environmental’s Role in New Jersey’s Record AFFF Collection Program
New Jersey’s AFFF collection and destruction program just earned national trade coverage, and Revive Environmental was front and center.
Waste Dive, a leading publication covering the environmental services industry, published coverage this week on the growing market for PFAS collection and destruction. Revive CEO Rick Gillespie was featured, speaking to the scale of the New Jersey program and what it signals for states still working through their own AFFF stockpiles.
NJDEP didn’t just need a collection program. They needed complete destruction. That’s why they hired Revive.
As prime contractor, Revive managed the program end to end: collection event coordination and transportation with Republic Services, and permanent destruction at Revive’s permitted facility in Columbus, Ohio using the PFAS Annihilator® . The PFAS Annihilator is the only commercially available technology in North America proven to treat AFFF to EPA drinking water Maximum Contaminant Levels, with every batch independently verified before discharge. Not landfilled. Not incinerated with uncertain residuals. Gone.
Two collection sites ran simultaneously across the state, serving hundreds of fire departments. Seven PFAS Annihilator units run around the clock to handle the volume. Revive is also supporting the decontamination of 19 AFFF tenders statewide, so departments can fully transition to fluorine-free alternatives without handling residuals themselves.
As Gillespie told Waste Dive:
“Even though this is the largest today, there are a number of states out there that have stockpiles that are likely similar in volume. These state collection programs are a strong customer for us, but they represent only a percentage of the work that we’re doing with PFAS.”
New Jersey is the fourth state where Revive has run a collection program. The pipeline ahead is significant.
