Signal PFAS waste incineration costs $1,000-5,000 per tonne against about $50 for ordinary waste

Summary

The Dubai Future Foundation outlook puts a price on today's way of handling PFAS waste. Contaminated foams, sludge and resins are currently gathered and shipped to incinerators at $1,000–5,000 per tonne. Ordinary municipal solid waste, by comparison, costs about $50 per tonne to handle. As destruction technologies mature, the outlook expects more treatment to take place locally instead. For high-concentration PFAS waste, some systems are nearing 99% destruction efficiency, which supports on-site or regional treatment models. The outlook argues this could turn open-ended contamination liability into a more defined treatment cost, making polluted sites easier to value, finance and manage.