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Every air field in the world that had fire drills in the last 50 years have PFAS in the surrounding environment. It’s extremely hard to clean out, although not
by alkonaut 4y ago
Every air field in the world that had fire drills in the last 50 years have PFAS in the surrounding environment.
It’s extremely hard to clean out, although not impossible. Using certain plants to collect the PFAS from water, then harvesting and incinerating them has been shown to work.
I’m assuming there is no current use of PFAS in these bases now. The economic responsibility for cleanup and compensation is of course with the US.
- blahblah1234567 4y agoUnfortunately, Incinerating sounds like a way to release PFAS or some sort of breakdown of them into other (perhaps similar or worse) chemicals, into the air. At which point, they will float and disperse and likely fall back onto/into the land or water. I imagine they're a colloid in water. And so perhaps they precipitate out of air (vapor?) and into land/water.