Could a soybean-based foam help extinguish fires and prevent toxic chemicals from seeping into Wisconsin waterways?
The Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board certainly hopes so.
The board’s president, Pat Mullolly, recently visited Dalton, Georgia, to observe farmers and volunteer firefighters using a new soybean-based product called SoyFoam.
“It looked like the consistency of paint. It was a brown-type substance, maybe a little bit thicker than salt. They inject that into the water stream and it creates foam,” Mullolly said on WPR’s “The Morning Show.”
According to Mullolly, the biodegradable foam could eliminate the use of chemicals known as PFAS in firefighting foam. The chemicals have been linked by the U.S. Fire Administration to health risks and groundwater pollution.