PFAS Cleanup


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Destroying Forever Chemicals, Forever

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For the Seneca Nation, water holds a deep cultural significance as a life-giving force to be protected and stewarded. The Nation’s traditional respect for water underpins its modern commitment to water reclamation and sustainable infrastructure. This now includes cleanup of PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), a growing problem across the U.S. with carcinogenic effects that are just starting to be understood.

By combining stewardship and innovation, the Seneca Nation’s Earth-healing solutions company, Seneca Environmental, seeks to protect this essential resource while creating long-term economic value and building a future-focused environmental enterprise.

The Cutting Edge of PFAS Cleanup

Issues with Standard PFAS Cleanup

At a time when the carcinogenic impacts of PFAS are increasingly in the news and lawsuits are forcing companies to make large settlements, cleanup is still lagging.

  • Most cleanup focuses on collecting rather than actually destroying PFAS, leading to recontamination.
  • Landfills are rejecting PFAS waste because of concerns about the toxic chemicals leaching into groundwater and being released through landfill gas.
  • PFAS cleanup can be energy-intensive, complex, particularly for multi-source sites with diffuse contamination.
What Are PFAS

PFAS pollution along the Huron River. Source: MountainFae, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Groundbreaking New Way to Clean up PFAS

With our partner MossParker Technologies, we are offering an innovative PFAS cleanup process that focuses on capture and destruction rather than just collecting and dumping.

  • Identifies and removes harmful PFAS compounds from water sources while permanently destroying the PFAS molecule at its core.
  • Achieves 99.9% non-toxic destruction of PFAS compounds, as verified by third-party testing.
  • Can be employed on industrial waste streams to destroy the PFAS ​onsite.
  • The low-pressure, low-heat process makes real destruction financially viable at scale.

MossParker’s revolutionary process breaks down the PFAS molecule to harmless residues that are unable to reform into PFAS molecules, thereby removing present contamination, while also ensuring recontamination can never happen again.

The MossParker system is the only effective method available that can both remove PFAS from the environment, and completely destroy PFAS at its core.

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We are seeking partners to demonstrate MossParker’s new, comprehensive approach to PFAS cleanup, which can be customized to your needs to handle all levels of PFAS contamination.

  • Partner with a tribally owned team with exceptional ratings from federal government customer.
  • Show your leadership in PFAS cleanup by being at the vanguard of a cutting-edge PFAS destruction system.
  • Get ahead of tightening state and federal regulations, growing concern from the public, and the increasing threat of litigation by water utilities.
  • Reduce long-term financial risk — recent settlements with corporations have run as high as $12.5 billion — and enhance your organization’s reputation.

In addition to partnering with MossParker, Seneca Environmental is supported by the Seneca Nation’s federal contracting arm, with deep experience and capabilities in environmental cleanup, including Superfund sites, and exceptional federal contracting performance.

When you do business with us, you increase your impact by directly supporting a Native Nation. Our work supports Seneca Holdings’ mission to build a portfolio of profitable businesses that delivers ​long-term, sustained income and economic self-sufficiency to the Seneca Nation, a sovereign Native Nation located on a portion of their aboriginal lands east of Lake Erie.

We Serve

  • Corporations

  • Federal Government

  • Water Districts

  • States and Municipalities

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What Are PFAS?

PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are known as “forever” chemicals, because their highly stable chemical structure means they do not break down. So when they’re released into the environment, they remain there.

The widespread contamination of PFAS has been linked detrimental health effects, including kidney, testicular, and breast cancer, low birth weights, miscarriages, immune-system suppression, thyroid disease, and obesity. Once PFAS enter the body and are absorbed by fat cells, they remain there forever with no method of removal or elimination. Nearly 99% of all humans tested for PFAS have shown PFAS presence in their blood.

Contaminated sites across the U.S. include public and private water sources as well as military installations that use fire-suppression foams containing PFAS.

Until now, the best method for PFAS “disposal” has been dumping contaminated PFAS capture media into local landfills, burying it, and hoping for the best. However, PFAS chemicals in this waste, even in lined landfills, leach into groundwater sources and return to contaminate the environment.

That’s why we’re focusing on permanently removing these dangerous chemicals from our environment.

Human health effects of exposure to PFAS. Source: European Environment Agency (Q632988), CC BY 2.5 DK, via Wikimedia Commons.

Seneca RECs Case Studies

Pinterest

Client goals:
  • Decarbonization: Purchase renewable energy certificates (RECs) to fully achieve goal of 100% renewable energy for offices globally.
  • Equity: Elevate communities that have been under-resourced through funding and collaboration.

Solution:

  • RECs purchase from Seneca Environmental.
  • Provides renewable energy for Pinterest offices and remote employees in 15 countries.
  • Deal includes high-impact RECs tied to a project supporting a local ecosystem, with no-mow native plants and pollinator-friendly practices.

Outcomes

For customer:

  • Furthers Pinterest’s goal to achieve 100% renewable energy.
  • Provides positive brand awareness with coverage in outlets like Triple Pundit.
  • Supports Native-led renewable energy initiatives.

For Seneca:

  • Provides opportunity to expand growing capabilities in renewable energy sector.
  • Builds capacity to participate in power markets while serving customers that value authentic business relationships with tribally owned enterprises.

General Services Administration

Client goals:

  • Energy transition: Purchase energy attribute certificates (EACs) from carbon pollution-free electricity (CFE) generation sources.
  • Decarbonization: Support the Biden Administration’s Federal Sustainability Plan goal of powering all federal operations with CFE by 2030.
  • Equity: Support the the Biden Administration’s commitment to Native Nations.

Solution:

  • Purchase 265,716 MWh of EACs from Seneca Environmental, equivalent to the power that 32,780 typical homes consume in a year.
  • The government’s first-ever purchase of CFE from a tribally owned business under the Indian Energy Purchase Preference provisions of the 2005 Energy Policy Act.

Outcomes

For customer:

  • Enables 185 federal buildings across 12 states to use 100% clean electricity.
  • Saves nearly $800,000 compared to what GSA paid for CFE EACs in previous year.
  • Provides a model for energy procurements from tribally owned businesses.

For Seneca:

  • Builds capacity to participate in power markets.
  • Combines growing capabilities in renewable energy with deep expertise doing business with the federal government.

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To learn more about our PFAS cleanup offerings, contact us at info@senecaenvironmental.com, or fill out the form below.

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