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by design, especially those a coated with p f. s. human made substances that on found in nature invented some 80 years ago. they have useful properties and then on fine level of i want to repellent. grease resistance well suited for using lubricants and highly state this which is why industry is putting them into more and more products. and that's not worrying because p. fos can make you sick. so you could okay, can have an impact on fertility. i'm ice cream quality and fetal development and what type they can lower immune response to vaccination. some have upsets. i'm a fast as carcinogenic, and i'm shoot this weekend, the e u ames to run to key tubs. they use this, put an industry in flames. p, fafsa, indispensable limits are for that, can we, can, we want to do without a mobility and dollar to production to put them to institution. we want to do without 5 g technology and fuel cells and best. so what do we do?

best buy in 10 to find out. the p 1st stands the pi and poly florio al, kill substances covering over $10000.00 different chemicals in various phones, solid liquid, and gas full p fast, a synthetic organic compounds or hydrocarbons in which many o lifting hydrogen atoms are replaced by fluorine attends. that makes these compounds extremely robust and durable, but at the same time, highly persistent, meaning that but you the impossible to break down as a result,

these forensic chemicals accumulate in soil. for example, i have discovered that the ground here in restaurants, in southwest germany, where i live, has especially high p fast levels. we have lots of p fast in, in of fields in all directions, but with a distinct plan. just before the harvest, i grow ecologist mila need salsa and to colleague systematically collect grading samples to test them for p. fast in the lab. i'm going on these. uh huh. if these are it's all contaminated, what happens then? then both the farmer can't market them as food. i've just the feet of a lag in within the testing continues. this is meaning that the farmers animal products will then be examined just to assure the consumers are protect it. took of allies. yeah. people how contaminated it writes in general, that they're relatively unproblematic and sending the greens to absorb pizza all,

but not nearly as much as with wage or soybeans for. yeah, for the name, the stack of the skin is piece us becoming less of an issue. you know, it's a constant problem in this area indicating it turns out that the square ok, but the search for contaminants continues on eric crisis home. he grows strawberries, cereals and asparagus, and he knows what p fast can do to. crumbs 2015 was a particularly bad. yeah. they had been gone live according to us. properties are right and ready to harvest. yeah, my son's the book checks were done just to be on the safe side, i think. and also because there's a lot of money at stake, spotlight, uh, but unfortunately we couldn't sell which anything i'd have to destroy. 3 hector is worth of a flock point. that was a tough flow. house, 70 or 80000 euros were gone just like not on the deal with that.

so leaving it. we live with p. fuss now, can you follow us? it's been some of the 2nd generation and father, i just my father started farming here. my son wants to continue the tradition, so we have to come to terms with the to the obviously even with inflation. move in house. if eric rice is a $140.00 hacked has a highly contaminated, so name will store breeze as they absorb a relatively large amount of p fast, which could mean the end of his foam. how do pace us enter the environment in the 1st place and what impact did they then have? i've come to this with public research university, e t h in. so rick, to, um, says, profess a mountain shedding has been studying these compounds for 15 years and has long warned about the inflationary use of past netflix. and so people have thrown around us. why? so i'm ready for one thing because they used a lot, especially in products that are open, meaning they can reach out to these products as well. and then it is custom

flooring pond is so hard to break, but people don't think great in the environment has been so once they've reached out here to stay and can johnny on woods 5 and wins and want to a me think lessons me because me for us to save us a child that deployed in a multitude of ways, for example, in firefighting sites, or in every day, objects like furniture, clothes and plastics. college kinds of p fast known as fluoride polymers. i used to cut the surface of frying pens, liquid or soap like p fast cold fluoride is to effect and make materials. oil and water repellant. and then there were flow renee to o. s. gases which serve as coolants and fridges and heat pumps. v dangerous pieces, 2 feet each of the elephant in here with different kinds, but most of them are toxic to a certain degree. if you look. mm hm. the they damage the liver and kidneys. if

they can cause testicular cancer, they disrupted lippitt metabolism suppressed immune response and lead to the lowest pump accounts. in math, i mean sort of, i mean, and then how can i find out what contains be replaced as costs as long as, as long as someone's is down and research is that in patents and industry documents, you want to find out there's no general registration calls this could kind of give me that list of places. why know this? via the destination, because there is no such requirements as keep the substances that are on the market tomorrow. and you factors might mix them into cosmetic creams or apply them to climbing rug safety lines and that doesn't even have to be to cloud, pardon, investments don't need to go here to the recent studies show p, fostering practically every single lithium batteries, oil and gas plants, and tanks, many kinds of paper, competing dental care products and cosmetics, cost refrigerants,

and medical implants, to name just a few examples. and so if i don't think we'll get to grips with the appropriate name and then taking this, mr. because he thinks that's why it is because he's simply reversible, comes in, you can't get them back out of the environment when you meet or it's like once you've called my milk and you will call for your own, get it out again except on a much larger scale, so it's impossible. this is really here in probably in a spiral down to, to control it is a full circle. mm hm. so one's facile ways patients. yes. i think that's the reality. the info alias for this patient the read don't see a show where it's been detected. the blue tops by contamination is suspect to me, not to and from what it the map is fall from comprehensive with shocking results on a line in germany and has 1500 hot spots many

a chemical plant. so apple and in the case of my home region in south west, in germany, in fields around a 1000 tact has a farm land t at a highly contaminated. why, how did this become a problem? reach me shanghai reinhardt is a geologist who's an expert at cleaning up p fast hotspots. com, dots. so via it happened because so called soil conditioners were applied to the fields, also with the boot and holes capacity when they contain the pope sludge. a few in particular from nominated paper products, all the puppy industry. the receipts to dish bits, the popular eggs, people used to, to improve the soil, and instead ended up contaminating its stuff. this in the face of full invite and it's a patchwork of fields contaminated to varying degrees. timing is any possible,

so in limited extent, wells were closed due to high ph pass levels. cleanup operations of read this was once a contaminated field, it was was done to hospital and clean ones guy. nice and hot 9 might not know. they dug down roughly one meter utah. this material was then placed under a building must be under a 4 slab i seals or the i so that know run off rainwater can see through this material stuff as a kind you guys like spotlight use as much as we still haven't gotten the was assigned to rain while she's the fast out of the soil and into the ground water. this also supplies local wells, but also keeps on flowing. taking the p f. s. with that these us as i saw last monday, he has the to the water. you can see here is ultimately open ground water because there's no gravel. so what that one does cool and this one and then passes from over there where the basement is to push them back into the gravel aquifer and

flows on is ground water. so it's going to pass off by the method. dorothy, is that what does that main floor is the properties and feels safe then? yeah, the boss are still in, but doing this water is taken to irrigate crops, then obviously that'll be a problem. so you can see these on such of a tradition that's done. i'm to blame is the swimming is permitted to yeah, the most it contains be faster but is regularly monitor 2 kinds of p facet detected most frequently in water. he fell out or pass 0 to knowing as each a remnant from the production of no mistake coatings and p false or path flow row obtain so fun, i cast it to used in firefighting site. despite those being pretty much band for years, they've built topping ground for to as a law jerry is and it's via this ground floor to the p fast, keep polluting eric rises from every year. he uses millions of leeches of water to irrigate his crops. but the water from the wells on his farm is so contaminated

that he 1st has to purify it in the silos using activated comp and sites like fruit steed. when probably say to is the most of the salt, it's clean in size, there are 2 silos. this after the 1st time cleans up, but some time after we've gotten a new carbon filter inside, we take the water samples. you want me to hold and control and you can see that it's clean on, so it's on points. so when the carpet is saturated, the p funds break through 20, then we realize it's not working anymore. and that's why the 2nd silo is there to catch it in the system. but i think it's the emergency side of it so nothing bugs can happen. and it's kind of specing on the how often are they changing? currently we change one silo per year in 2000. let's call it so something like this cost more cons basis of $7.00 or $8000.00 euros seems off. that was no one. i know . so i guess have you ever consider switching the cops? i was on trouble is off. we're going to find like this will be something that's

like having a house with a dead body in the center. and the by, it was a lie you kindly got kept dismissed on finally cover. so the situation is a precarious one. you have to pay fast, continue to find the way into the environment. why? the consequences, a well known and european union will. thirty's half reacted by issuing regulations and prohibiting 2nd types of pieces in 2006, they banned peoples in 2008 restrictions on the food stuff in 2020 a band on p fella and limits on 20 thoughts of p. fast in drinking water in 2022, a band on test in a row. heck, same so funny cas 8. and in 2023. a strict drinking water directive people sometimes people come and just do what they want their own moon. some the use of p . c. they sufficient all do you items not escape those lights as

a global convention? the currently includes 3 kinds of past sort of band worldwide, about. but that's the tip of the iceberg, because ice dock, if you want to add payment, has to have a product you can do that. you were speaking with us to that's and we, we need to get away from the floor, a chemical music team. and that's just part of a general reorientation and chemical policy. 242. we need, well, just an energy transition for the chemicals transition to other under another way of looking at chemical products and thinking about what way using them form and in walton mounts. we need a serious re, single product and go and the e. u now requires old chemicals to be registered, which involves manufacturers submitting documentation about how safe a substance is. only those of very high concern a subject to authorize ation. although in the case of p fast but could soon change the you is considering a radical proposal, the production marketing and use of

o p fast be restricted to the chemical industry is up in homes because exceptions aside thousands of existing p fast could no longer be used in the you, the proposal is now being evaluated by scientific committees, which will deliver their opinions to the european commission. and if at all, i'm usually the bond covering not just individual substances, but the whole not for between mr. yeah. does this seems very on, usually a 1st, in fact, in many cases, dfcs not only mildly toxic, but that also it stream the persistence, which means they can't get out of control. so it's also gonna pull it off. and when these refunds, i concluded that due to this persistence problem and the gravity of the situation, it's appropriate to group oil p fast together. when does that sound almost unprecedented step into you? and one that the chemical industry believes is in fact, because not all p fast, all the same i knew i sent to today, shed in the netherlands,

is home to us. company come was dodges to european production site in operation for over 60 years. it makes fluoride pulling as a plastic like p f. s. the water and ground around the plant, a highly contaminated yet to come was says the chemicals used in its production. us say that again, we'd like to expose the questions directory over that, but go offices in writing and they said without fluoride problem is semi conduct. his batteries and hydrogen technology made in europe would no longer be competitive. and i saw the client and daughter last. we're investing 75000000 euros to reduce p 1st emissions by of the 99 percent. an over regulation of fluoride polymers would endanger the industrial competitiveness of the e. u. the

. so what does the communities affect to have to say the associate in dogtown whole, assuming kimball was for polluting the environment. tanya, to young. uh is a member of the co counsel. does she really think they'll be able to bring this chemical giants to? it's nice. vanessa came here in 90. 61. i think that's the most important move from them for our city. you suit the company. why? we think they must have known that when they were here producing and that's i will claim that to be safe. will you have known that the chemicals you use are polluting, have polluted in the, in those times. so our area and our risk for the health of our citizens,

due to high levels of peace on the council, has already shots, drinking more to wells, and advises people not to eat purchase, grow near the lake, or swim minutes or as it is. and it's now taking come us to coast. uh is your gall also that this company is no longer located here? no, that's not our goal. um, because our goal is that the use of the chemicals, different chemicals to pay falls. this, our goal is to restrict them and to get them a schedule rate of it. and if you say, well, just leave our region and a go to another country, they still have the use of these chemicals. it also takes a lot of courage to do then. and why did you indian decide to do it anyway? i think it's also a statement that's a big companies don't. so whoever fee who will come out sounds,

how will the court ruled come was? is liable for the p fast pollution? something i'll be finding out say can lose itself. was there any founded in 2015 as a spin off from the pumps? the us chemical giant is responsible for one of the worst cases of p, fast contamination worldwide. the shocking story which has been the subject of several films played out in the us state of west virginia. but i was present since the 1950s, the palm to be making its test on coaching in pocketbook using the p fast compound p. so products the production waste contaminated the surrounding land and water capital on a neighboring farm. dined on the farm and himself contract to come along with the suspicious, the high number of all the residents. the resulting legal battle with the pump went home for almost 20 years. it was revealed that the company had known about p. f. o

is toxic effect. since the 19 sixty's yet continued to discharge the waste into the environment, in the end to contact, to pay around $700000000.00 in compensation to those affected beside the van beds. a house of thousands of people is mona said to this day, just like in the region i'm from was like, well, i no longer live in the effect today or yeah, maybe i should also have my lunch. some questions like and i'll get the test results back in a few days time. we evidently need to find a way of doing with out for chemicals. i want to meet people who have discovered alternatives, and i know just with the

fields that rough and piece us hotspots as a chemical and oil industry facilities here at the post of roof to them. i can see one reason why when extinguishing major blazes or in training exercises firefights has to fill a huge amounts of size. this foam used to contain large amounts of p fast resulting in the large scale contamination of entire areas. at this fire academy, firefight is really on how to extinguish flames with p fast free 5 i capacity is there. instruct techno as of as the deputy chief of the factory fiber gauge, he used to work a lot with phone that contains p families because of our home today he trains colleagues to put down the big places using a new kind of simon to tom. what makes it different now? yeah, yeah, i'm here. so i'm with, i'm like the old people on space

a 3 m c plus i think this phone does not create an obvious film of water between the burning material and the phone here. it's the layer of film itself that is active. otherwise this, you can see this time is stable, it doesn't, for the pond phase, we can, this has them all and all that is exactly what did it still covering the combustible material and prevent it from the back reading and possibly re ignited in the fall. so dump the be upset, so these on this phone can simply be disposed of normally of the mountains on and so i was p fast people, so i think i felt most i'm that needs to be incinerated as hazardous waste. and so i can just release it into the environments. yes, that's what happened for decades on a large scale and with domestic consequences. now it's possible to find even launch fine is using p fast free fun. still, it'll be a huge task to train or firefighters. how to use it and upgrade to thousands of facilities and what's not small since in 1st we have to find out how to extinguish

fires and storing this pre phone bundle. then what adjustments need to be made the equipment and how do we need to clean the vehicles in tanks to ensure that the p fos, from the old thom has really gone and isn't now in the newsome mission open line. so i'm going to be other than other people out, right away, middle suffolk, there's no, it was a long process i'll consume with no firms to ask about that. and then we had to learn how and develop our own system of, of the, the hosting. now we know it's a major project for every vehicle in the fire extinguishing system. it's all requires a huge amount of time and money on, and they tend to lose right among the 1st product. so a manufacturer has tried to replace piece hospice outdoor gas featuring move to repellant materials. how successful was a visit found a in southern gemini? the company was a pioneer in making p fast free sportswear with all the friends following since the

funds had of development. bettina hold gives me a tour of the account. this is water repellant. i did. you know they always p, fast free. now i them. yeah, yes, yeah. okay. it shows the production of new fabrics is a bit more involved. lots of to generations of developments and lots of trying to narrow the now just as move to resistant and durable as tech styles coated with p fast. yeah, the, the amount of water coming out of the shower is equivalent to heavy rain full. but nice to a nice and drawing the fast free out to where it works and is now widely available . so i'm like of it. it was a long journey to sleep. we had to convince the chemical industry to do something in which we have to convince our supply chain to switch to p, faucet free alternative items,

which meant changing entire production processes. let's put test it. just as i've been with us. i have been split says i got that, then there were very few, pretty fast free alternatives on the market. much the chemical industry simply didn't offer them because the demand wasn't there. and then we've done. yeah. then com. okay. some point green piece launch detox campaign with a big focus on p 1st, and the outdoor and support square industry was publicly taken to task comp and then things really picked up speed i, there was pressure to change. and so the chemical industry got moving to and instead of one alternative, suddenly you have many to try out to do more than it was for the inclusion. i'm guessing that was all tricky. the clearly the industry needs and also time to come up with alternatives. but who is the lease? i think the street exactly. the major manufacturer has a based in the us, but produce all life,

including in europe. 3 um known freight sets. he serves and face mosques as a major producer. yep. 3 and plans to quit manufacturing p fast. by the end of 2025. why? the 3 i will pay more than $10000000000.00 to settle lawsuits surrounding for ever chemicals and drinking water. they use multinational 3 m says it's reached a tentative 10 to the world. wide 3 m is facing hundreds of low suits, related to p cost pollution. in 2023 alone, it's settled in array of claims in the us by agreeing to pay of a $10000000000.00 in american history. next i head off to the 3 m subsidy. read dining and located in gained off various largest chemical talk pounds, which 3 m plans to close soon lies on the river. it's this region has been battling p fast pollution for years deficient contaminated and drinking water has to be

filled since i'm not allowed on the high security factory grounds. so they'll be no interview with dine in. it makes flu road. pelham is used to cope components and chemical plants and in the production of mike pritchens, the man i'm meeting, he is a chemical pox for my direct to now spokesman for a low be great backing this location. and, but he might let me on to the grounds either. instead, he takes me to a meeting room with an aerial photo of the chemical plant on so we're right up there in the, in that white building does. uh huh. where exactly of the piece that's produced? a yeah there because i assume the film. i don't, i don't have the operations here on the edge of the factory premises in this and be seated. it's your biggest production facility for federal polymers. the whole 40 percent of the amounts produce in all of europe comes from here, which is not just 3 items large. and so it's

a biggest plant of its kind in europe. and the most modern in the world goes down, is this thing with dance to unlock it of it. that's what he says. he says why? it's closer as a problem. not just for workers here, but also for european industry because you told me that this over page industry, i think that's why it was so attached to this. paste these hang on, do some stones. i'm attached to this location with all my heart and soul. do nothing because for the foreseeable future, a modern industrial society can't do without the for a polymers that are produced here. and it's not possible for technological reasons . takes the longest coin carbon in florida, and i can find a strong this bond known in chemistry next. and that's why they can't be replaced. can this we can, can use, it just sits to stand down. done for now is easy, but you also can't force other items to behave like flooring or hi cindy. so what this be? so it's a material properties of liking soft c i'm yes, and i agree. gasoline powered car as a kilo of to little polymers in

a teaser fruit put in medicine and electric version will have to come to your house . i'm 15 minutes. so do we want to do without e mobility? when do i want to do without chip reduction or 5? do you technology lane the all of you from the taking a look if it's a fuel cell is hydrogen electrolysis since they're all involved. floral polymer membranes, putting him in on a nosy sauce, equals no energy transition and no future technologies for the cam. delta spokesman, this seems to be no doubt. his group even expects the markets of p fast to grow and is now being from production to continue a gained of 15. that's been getting the industry being against radical restrictions isn't tool that surprising check. but business interests assigned to they have a point i travel to franklin to visit to small style top

cold deanus, which is investigating new ways of making fuel cells. today to fuel cells of old required pumps that contain p fast, like many other hydrogen technologies. oh i, that's all that's about as far as the 16 strong team is he on assist, is trying to change that before the cfo needs along. that tells us how far they've come. this is how fuel cells walk the fuel cells transform chemical energy from se hydrogen into electric power without combustion. power used to propel trucks. for example, hydrogen protons passed through a membrane. only me able to positively charged particles. the electrons travel through an external circuit producing connect tricity as each cell generates just one volts that combined into stacks, open comprising hundreds of fuel cells. the house of every cell is its proton

exchange membrane, which has to be chemically stable, durable, an easy to make, which amounts of the fuel cell contain pieces probably ends the membrane in the electrode is made of for flu, rosel sonic acid health, which belongs to the dfcs family for the 1st correct capital. so for the side are fluid also sonic acid has a high proton conduct of $800.00 permeability total factors. that's why p 5. so there's a popular option right now, as i'm, as it performs best under the requirements, it conducts protons and sufficiently stabilizing stuff. okay, that's what needs replacing things going on, right? there's a 5th to assess and does it work from us from it. we're here to a certain extent and give us a ma, we've already proven its performance and a full format so which could then actually be built into the stat or i think about them. but the technology isn't market ready yet. conditions will be mark plus us. that's when do you expect to see because it was in the,

as we're aiming to have something market ready by the end of the year after next. and then of course, we still have to produce it at scale about different understood. but ours aren't the only components in the fuel cell stack that use p $57.00 of the manufacturers of the gas diffusion layers. i'm a sealants also need to follow suggest the additional mis monitor this. i'll not seen me besides the pieces are a necessity in hydrogen technology right now. they're not going forward. so there's investment punishment going on. as of right talk today, we still need peace as product, so as not to nip the versioning hydrogen economy in the bond. fresh thinking about it's very important, these substances the band to ensure that over time green hydrogen technologies really are green and that everyone in the industry works together to develop these alternatives. so i don't know yet many in the industry are still ram and play fighting change and continue to buy and compete. we

get some news from the verdict testing reached in the trial against cameras. the local authority one the judge ruled the cameras actually illegally and was responsible for the pollution. so the relevant communities have a right to compensation. while they continue to fight for p fast to be banned worldwide, the 2 most responded that it is willing to discuss concrete mentions, but not to stop producing p fast to get them back to 0. isn't we really dependent on p, f. s. 9. know me. the field and these companies on that and that they should be searching for alternatives in many areas. they've already started off with them having to find alternative trick is a great up search and innovation of newest icon to you can see. and,

and some of us today, the biggest proportion of p fast go into air conditioners, cooling systems, and to heat pumps. in the form of flow, renee to the gases which he used is refrigerants, the more heat pumps will be needed is we transition to green a sources of energy here at the found whole for institution. fryeburg, lena snap is conducting research into the heat pumps of tomorrow. instead of s, gas is they will operate using natural refrigerants, like propane, some manufacturers are already producing these propane heat pumps. a not too distant here, it's not just refrigerants are found in nature, so they're easily tolerated in utah. and that's an exciting aspect when it comes to looking for alternative damage. i'm just by no effect on, i don't know, even how well did they work. upon propane is a tried and true refrigerant, and it works just as well as existing refrigerants. mm hm. and the last for the

higher temperatures involved in the renovation of older buildings, it's sometimes even better than the usual refrigerants. the engineer shows me the inner workings of a heat pump, a tangle of pipes and cables. so it seems, well, the small, when you can see that the device like this is meant to heat an entire house. and where does the refrigerant flow here? this is the compressor, it's the component that pump sit around. if natural propane works just as well, and just being in use for decades, i wonder why did industries replace it with p fast gas in the 1st place? so paint is farmable. that's the big issue. and what it is, it is great. you wouldn't have a problem with having a propane heat pump at home, and you said that i wouldn't just because i have

a feeling. so what the company's really put into which i want to measure is to see how much refrigerant you really need. the 9th of how much you can reduce the amount to also lower the safety risk. besides physical science, with heat pumps, then the synthetic refrigerants containing p fast can easily be replaced. but for as long as they can, industries will keep using f gases and other p fast chemicals. simply because that's the practical fit that continued production means that the fast but also cheap accumulate in the grounds, in range. and also, you know, abilities i have an appointment with the toxicologist from germany's environmental protection agency to see how contaminated my blood. this is. have you had your test results and is expected we could find for fluent added chemicals in your blood. and sarah looked an invitation for. mm hm. the home

we found a little more piscolla than before, which is vexing because the fella is a substance that already has an effect at low concentrations and concepts have soon dropped and your contamination is so high that we can't loud with any certainty that it won't affect your health, we'll see some can bottom. that means what? so yeah, the fact that you're in relatively good company, particularly today, we haven't found a single person, children's teenagers or adults. i knew where these substances weren't present to you just to finish how not flies and couldn't. how did they get to my boss in mind comes to of i should likely through food and drink. but if you have frequent conception of eggs, efficiency, food, or organ meats or that you know vine is and haven't eaten meat for 30 years. oh isn't oh, that's tough. it's of course that's good. but also disconcerting when i'm getting him testing. so is it oh, from compass obviously. yeah. yeah,

this is included. this is everywhere in the environment is a b t a is this, i didn't vouchers, expensive. personally, i find it annoying that we spend so much time discussing whether to take counter measures against forever. chemicals getting lost number a guy from the site, so you're in favor of a band opposite. absolutely. invite you to the data on the contamination of children and young people in germany and young people and adults throughout europe shows that our population is too highly contaminated for us to be able to safely rule out effects on danger, as to our health. and thank us, thank you. i'm, what can i do about nothing? ultimately, we need laws to prevent more contamination. and the use, the fast restriction proposal achieves that. industries have been fighting it for months. the main argument being that pieces are indispensable. the notion that many

of us such is disagree with the escape securely. and they're also talking the individual product, the web piece of the very important to which we call essentially have to come on to additional hot phone. so i'll send a cube sort of tough loan for example. you have them full filter of polymers for dialysis machines, where it's vital does not, doesn't clump pause, paint something about the flute, think i'm clean and that's and that's, and those applications where i p fast rec, stream the effective and we'll continue to need them. but that's just a small fraction of the many, many uses at present when the imaging used to these, if you find a lot of occasions with launch the solve, the problem includes the arguments and now being assessed by the european chemicals agency who will prevail? that will ultimately be decided by the european commission, the governments of e u. member states and europe in parliament in 2 a 3 years time. but we still have no um, so as to what can be done about the huge amounts of p,

fos that are already in the environment. getting rid of them is like trying to extract the milk back out of your coffee. but despite the difficulties, one attempt is on the way as a nato feels need gemini, is no sea coast, it might look like a giant sand books here. it's anything that's a playgrounds. this is all contaminated us. yes. how many tons in total? to begin this solely to watch 702800000 tons of various to get the p, fos, out of it. in the past several supply washing sounds like a crazy idea. power info is huge and loud. here's, here's the sort of the, sprinkled with clear water to rinse away the larger elements. it's

a simple enough set to save when shake and keep repeating until the p fonts are released into the water. you can see the pathos during the washing process, the firefighting from the, into the component of grounds. don't spend me again, the brown stuff on top, you know, right other, this is a part of the facility where the contamination wash board is really out of the soil . or all the pieces and they to filters out of the water and didn't send a ray to, to display stuff properly. what's left behind is cleanse sandy. soil that can once again be used as a construction material. the clean up takes a huge amount of effort and funding is this all the board and how can this may be done here, or could this be applied to other clean up sites?

that wouldn't the special buyer has to be washable tony to play like soil the comes isn't suitable for washing this because of the residual fine material that can harbor contaminants safe in many places in gemini, at least washing the ground, isn't a feasible solution. not to mention that the gun to an effort to involved with the this has to be how we plan to operate for 10 years, but the cost is extremely high as a whole lot of yeah, we're always the stuff behind the chemical industry. what kind of goes on long since for attribute on tomorrow we might be dealing with the contaminants that home the environments ones that we don't know yet. and i think it's the assistive fee in tax, but there's still a chance to store these chemicals from plaguing us forever. possibly the guessing ridge of p fast weathering contamination site. so production processes will be extremely complex and possibly we might not succeed straight away. but we'll pay an

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