Search results: PFAS

Martin Eszes

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…on the EU market food contact packaging containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) at concentrations at or above the limits set in the regulation. The ban introduces one of the strictest PFAS restrictions on food contact packaging in the world,…

Martin Eszes

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Removing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by adsorption is effective, but on its own it only transfers them from one phase to another. The real solution is to break the environmental cycle by mineralising the molecules. A joint study by KWR and the…

Martin Eszes

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A national Swiss campaign has run every PFAS method in the Commission's guidelines side by side, and none of them can name most of the organic fluorine in wastewater.

Martin Eszes

6

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Wastewater treatment does not break down PFAS, so the chemicals collect in sludge, and just as farmland is closing to it in more places, the technologies that can destroy them are leaving the pilot stage.

Martin Eszes

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To remove the "forever chemicals" known in the wastewater business as PFAS, the water industry can currently only work with expensive, energy-intensive tools that, on top of that, let the most stubborn pollutants through. A recent European finding, however,…

Martin Eszes

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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly known as "forever chemicals", pose a serious global environmental and health threat, especially when they turn up in groundwater, rivers and, ultimately, drinking water. That happens quite often, so there is…

Martin Eszes

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What is PFAS, and why is it a "forever chemical"? ‍ Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made compounds that have been widely used in industry and consumer goods since the 1940s: non-stick cookware, waterproof textiles, food…

Martin Eszes

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…puts a figure, for the first time, on the social and economic price Europe pays for PFAS pollution – and on the difference between acting and doing nothing.