Signal Grand Rapids has destroyed landfill PFAS since 2023 and Daikin processed 170,000 gallons in a field trial

Summary

The report offers two operating cases showing that PFAS destruction now works outside the laboratory. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, a facility has been destroying PFAS from landfill runoff without interruption since 2023. It is described as among the first operations of its type to reach commercial scale. At the other end of the contamination spectrum, Daikin Industries, itself a major PFAS producer, completed a large field trial treating more than 170,000 gallons of its own industrial wastewater. That trial relied on ultraviolet photochemical destruction. Together, the cases show destruction handling both legacy contamination in municipal groundwater and active industrial waste, suggesting the carbon–fluorine bond is no longer guaranteed to last forever.