Incineration

• Bolder Industries, Inc. and Soucy Techno announced today the signing of a formal multi-year supply agreement for BolderBlack®, the premier sustainable carbon black alternative.
• The partnership between Bolder and Soucy began in 2016 with a co-development of plastic masterbatch at Soucy’s Sherbrooke-based lab.
• “As is typical, we started small with Soucy to demonstrate our ability to deliver quality product at an exceptional value,” said Tony Wibbeler, CEO & Founder of Bolder Industries.
• Currently, Bolder supplies Soucy from their first site in Maryville, which processes nearly 2 million end-of-life tires (ELTs) annually.

• RUTLAND, Vt., July 11, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST), one of the largest recyclers and most experienced fully integrated resource management companies in the Eastern United States, recently honored six of its customers for their leadership in sustainability as part of Casella’s annual Sustainability Leadership Awards.
• The Casella Sustainability Leadership Awards represent innovation and commitment to creating a better tomorrow by showcasing each recipients’ sustainable material management practices.
• “We are thrilled to acknowledge and celebrate the sustainability achievements of these organizations with our 2023 Sustainability Leadership Awards,” said John W. Casella, Chairman and CEO of Casella.
• Boston University has entrusted Casella to help implement one of the country’s leading campus resource management and zero-waste strategies.

• As Teflon, they made pots easier to clean starting in the 1940s.
• Today, PFAS are pervasive in soil, dust and drinking water around the world.
• Facing lawsuits over PFAS contamination, the industrial giant 3M, which has made PFAS for many uses for decades, announced a US$10.3 billion settlement with public water suppliers on June 22, 2023, to help pay for testing and treatment.
• Biochemist A. Daniel Jones and soil scientist Hui Li work on PFAS solutions at the Michigan State University and explained the promising techniques being tested today.

How do PFAS get from everyday products into water, soil and eventually humans?

• PFAS can get into soil through land application of biosolids, that is, sludge from wastewater treatment, and can they leach out from landfills.
• If contaminated biosolids are applied to farm fields as fertilizer, PFAS can get into water and into crops and vegetables.
• Scientists in our research group at Michigan State University are working on materials added to soil that could prevent plants from taking up PFAS, but it would leave PFAS in the soil.

How are remediation projects removing PFAS contamination now?

• But these methods are expensive for large-scale projects, and you still have to get rid of the chemicals.
• That remediation project has cost over $3 million, but it prevents PFAS from moving into drinking water the community uses.
• Once PFAS is captured, then you have to dispose of PFAS-loaded activated carbons, and PFAS still moves around.

What are the most promising methods scientists have found for breaking down PFAS?

• PFAS have multiple fluorine atoms attached to a carbon atom, and the bond between carbon and fluorine is one of the strongest.
• Normally to burn something, you have to break the bond, but fluorine resists breaking off from carbon.
• There are several other experimental techniques that are promising but haven’t been scaled up to treat large amounts of the chemicals.

What are we likely to see in the future?

• If the exposure is mostly from drinking water, there are more methods with potential.
• The big challenge of remediation is making sure we don’t make the problem worse by releasing other gases or creating harmful chemicals.
• Freon, a chlorofluorocarbon, was the solution to replace toxic and flammable ammonia in refrigerators, but then it caused stratospheric ozone depletion.
• If there’s a lesson to be learned, it’s that we need to think through the full life cycle of products.

• DUBLIN, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The "Global Thermal and Biological Waste-to-Energy Markets" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
• Fully complementary to recycling, it is an economically and ecologically sound way to provide a renewable source for energy while diverting waste from landfills.
• WTE is one of the most robust and effective alternative energy options to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and replace fossil fuels.
• The WTE industry is expanding into new markets, particularly in developing countries, where access to clean energy is a major concern.