Stubborn compounds called PFAS in drinking water put health at risk. Technologies based on plasmas, pressure, sound or fungus could finally degrade these chemicals.
  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This sounds promising. Wish we could do something about microplastics as well.

    • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      we’re going to have to filter the entire ocean to capture these shits as well as the plastic. or release shit tons of bioengineered things to eat the shit, which is another fun game of wreck-entire-ecosystems-roulette.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “There are new ones being put on the market each year,” says Timothy Strathmann, a civil and environmental engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

    Any chance we could, you know, stop doing this immediately?