• RubberDuck
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    5810 months ago

    Oh great. And in a decade they will tell us that the company that made it already knew for 3 decades how horrible it was.

      • RubberDuck
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        710 months ago

        The production of Zyklon B was not enough of a crime against humanity huh.

        But the company will undoubtedly spin off another company and divest from the chemical in question.

      • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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        210 months ago

        I don’t have the full article, do they mention Bayer? Téflon does its own fair share of damages

        • @voodoocode@feddit.de
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          210 months ago

          This is not about Teflon which you’re right is one of the 10000 other forever chemicals. The specific case mentions TFA coming from pesticides. Largest Agrochemistry producer is Bayer.

    • @Flughoernchen@feddit.de
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      1910 months ago

      The EU started to heavily regulate some PFAS in 2010, others following on the heels. The regulations include a heavy focus on handling and waste management in order to minimize the potential of exposure and contamination. The plan to get rid of PFAS entirely has been around ever since. So yeah, they’ve known it’s horrible.

      • RubberDuck
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        710 months ago

        Dutch tv had a whole documentary on how pfas contaminated soil is mixed with other soils and then dumped in artificial ponds or lakes we created winning sand.

    • @Miaou@jlai.lu
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      510 months ago

      People from a Teflon factory were protesting pfas ban in cookingware so you can add weak leadership on top of that

  • Norgur
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    910 months ago

    Can’t we just dump more nitrite into the groundwater through cow feces to make this go away?