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My uncle said the Replacements for pfas are actually worse. What’s the final word on that?
by bilsbie 3y ago
My uncle said the Replacements for pfas are actually worse. What’s the final word on that?
- burnished 3y agoThere aren't any replacements for them, and its unclear what you mean by worse, less efficacious or more environmentally damaging? If the former then yeah, theres a reason those products took off
- polski-g 3y agoWe used to wrap products in paper or cloth. We could go back to that.
- hedora 3y agoThe regulators have taken a whack-a-mole approach to banning this class of chemicals in the past. The result is that the popular ones that are well-understood get banned, and then replaced with ones that haven't been studied. There's no reason to think the replacements are better or worse, though they are often worse. The organization in the article is proposing banning production of the entire family of chemicals (~ 12,000 of them) instead of doing it one at a time.