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Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them
(www.livescience.com)
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Is it even feasible to basically pre-boil the drinking water on such a large scale?
I think the idea is to filter it out (which is also not easy) but then this gives you a way to destroy the concentrated pfas left behind. Because otherwise what are you supposed to do with the material you have filtered out? It'd be cool if regulations required the cost of destroying pfas be added to the sale of pfas which might help manufacturers decide that they don't need to add pfas to disposable things like paper plates after all.
Agreed 100%. They should be forced to add the cost of handling and recycling the material. Honestly, this should've been done with all plastic from the get go too.
DMSO and NaOH are not what you want in drinking water