[Military Environmental Forum] PFAS: "AFFF management enters new era after incineration pause lifted"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AFFF management enters new era after incineration pause lifted
The opportunity presented by millions of gallons of aqueous film-forming foam on U.S. Department of Defense installations is beginning to come into focus.

By April Reese
Waste Dive
July 6, 2026

As military bases and other facilities around the country work toward cleaning up millions of gallons of aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF), both the opportunities and challenges the work presents for remediation companies and government entities are coming into greater focus. 

More than 700 DOD sites either have or are likely to have elevated levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the water or soil, largely due to contamination from the use of AFFF over decades for putting out jet fuel fires and training firefighters on the practice. The department needs to remove more than 2 million gallons of AFFF concentrate across its facilities, plus another 1.5 million gallons of rinsate leftover from cleaning fire trucks and airplane hangars — a necessary step before switching to the new F3 firefighting agent, according to DOD. Millions more gallons of AFFF need to be cleaned up at airports, municipal firefighting sites and other non-military facilities.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wastedive.com/news/afff-foam-pfas-management-incineration-pause-lift-effects/824442/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)





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