Regulatory efforts to purge PFASs from drinking water have led to a rush for technologies that can capture and destroy the chemicals.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Firefighters get exposed to a lot of this stuff through firefighting foam. It was shown in Australia that the regular blood donors had lower blood levels of PFAS in their system. So personally, donate blood.

        • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 days ago

          I am assuming the person I responded to was pointing out the “forever” part of “forever chemicals” because they aren’t actually going to stick around forever. But they do stick around for a while, up to 1000 years from a quick Google search.

          Its kind of like how people call fossil fuels “non-renewable” even though the earth is constantly making more. Its just on such a long timescale that for all intents and purposes it’s “forever”