PFAS and AFFF waste disposal
PFAS is the one area in this catalog where the ground is still moving. Federal and state requirements have been changing, disposal and destruction routes are under active scrutiny, and what is accepted practice today is not guaranteed to be accepted practice in three years.
Document the decision and the date
When a regulatory picture is settled, the right answer is to follow it. When it is moving, the defensible position is a recorded decision: what you held, what applied at the time, which route you chose, and why. That record is worth more later than the route itself, because the question asked in five years will not be "did you pick the option we now prefer" but "was your decision reasonable on what was known". Two practical points follow. Inventory everything, including what is sitting in vehicle tanks and fixed systems rather than only the drums in the store. And plan for the rinsate: flushing a system to replace the foam produces far more volume than the concentrate did, and it is the part most often left out of a budget.
What goes this way
The streams pfas / afff waste disposal handles, and what each one is under the rules — with acceptance decided by a profile rather than by a name on a drum.
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PFAS-bearing
AFFF concentrate
Stored concentrate being taken out of service, in drums, totes and fixed systems.
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PFAS-bearing
System rinsate
From flushing vehicle and hangar systems. Usually the larger volume by a wide margin.
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By analysis
Impacted soil, water and media
From testing areas, training grounds and spill locations.
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PFAS-bearing
Spent treatment media
Carbon and resin from treating PFAS-impacted water, which concentrates what it removed.
When this is not the right route
The cases where pfas / afff waste disposal is not what you want, and what to use instead.
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The foam is a fluorine-free replacement with no PFAS content
Go to Nonhazardous Waste Disposal -
The work is site investigation and the waste is investigation-derived
Go to Industrial Wastewater Treatment
What you get back
The records pfas / afff waste disposal produces, and what each one is evidence of — because the liability for a waste stays with the generator from the moment it is created until it is destroyed.
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The decision record
What you held, what applied at the time, which route was chosen and why — dated. In an area where requirements are moving, this is worth more later than the route itself, because the question asked in five years will be whether the decision was reasonable on what was known.
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Inventory and volumes
Concentrate and rinsate separately, including what came out of vehicle and fixed systems, since the rinsate is usually the larger number and the one left out of budgets.
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Destination confirmation
Where the material went and under what acceptance criteria.
Who sends us this
The facility types that usually need pfas / afff waste disposal, each with its own page on what that process produces and under which codes.
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- PFAS-bearing
Military
- AFFF concentrate and system rinsate
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Aerospace
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Government
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Oil & Gas
Before you ask for a price
What generators ask about pfas / afff waste disposal, answered from the rules rather than from marketing copy.
The regulatory position has been developing at both federal and state level, and it is not uniform across the eight states Greer serves. That is precisely why the decision record matters: the right question is what applied when you acted, and whether your reasoning was sound.
Considerably more than the concentrate you are removing, and it is the item most often missing from a transition budget. Inventory the fixed systems and the vehicles before estimating, not after.
Thermal treatment of PFAS has been the subject of active review, so this is an area to decide deliberately and record rather than to assume. It is the clearest example on this site of a route that should be chosen with its reasoning written down.
Describe the stream. We will tell you the route.
A description of the process and a rough quantity is enough to start. A Certified Hazardous Materials Manager reads every request, and sometimes the answer is a different service than the one you asked about.