Warsaw 28:02:2021 08:16 AM Steve Walker (Revised 2026)
The AQUIS Team
A Career with a Mission: Making Microplastics, Nanoplastics and PFAS Extinct
Some careers provide employment. Others provide the opportunity to build an industry and confront a problem that humanity cannot afford to ignore.
AQUIS offers both.
We are bringing together water professionals, microbiologists, engineers, laboratory specialists, environmental-service providers and commercial leaders around one clear mission:
To remove microplastics, nanoplastics and PFAS from the public water cycle—making water safer for people and for the microbial systems on which our future will depend.
This is a worthy calling and an expanding business opportunity.
AQUIS will begin by protecting the water and fermentation biology within TITAN. With every new TITAN cluster, the AQUIS water jurisdiction expands. The knowledge, microbial products, filtration systems and trained teams developed at home can then be deployed across regional public-water, wastewater, sludge and anaerobic-digestion markets.
Three major threats
The AQUIS Team is organised around three persistent threats:
- Microplastics
- Nanoplastics
- PFAS
These pollutants are different, but they share one dangerous characteristic: capturing them does not automatically make them disappear.
When they are removed from water, they become concentrated in another material—sewage sludge, AD digestate, spent filtration media, activated carbon or another treatment residue.
If that material is landfilled or spread on land, the contamination has been moved—not eliminated.
AQUIS is being built to complete the entire chain.
The journey from microplastic to nanoplastic
Microplastics do not remain the same size forever.
As plastic particles travel through water, wastewater, biological treatment, pumping, mixing, digestion and the wider environment, they can weather, weaken and fragment. Larger particles become microplastics. Microplastics can then fragment further into nanoplastics.
Nanoplastics are not a separate problem appearing from nowhere. They can be the next stage in the continuing breakdown of plastic already travelling through the system.