get full stories on our website to best d, w dot com and on social media channels on them is at the the news i'm bitter strategy invalid. and thanks so much for watching the back again in about 45 minutes from now. you that the drilling on innovation as a palestinian and live alone, we don't expect much living with a bare minimum without civil rights and with no cost. this is not a good environment. yeah, no, no, my children and favorite shadow stats august 3rd on the w. want to lots of fast food packaging. and artificial heart valves having coming

by doesn't persist. those a coated with p, f. s. human made substances that on found in nature invented some 80 years ago. they have useful properties of interest. and uh no, i'm fine level of i want to repellent. grease resistance well suited for using lubricants and heidi states that this which is why industry is putting them into more and more products and not worrying because p. fos can make you sick. so you could or they can have an impact on fatality. 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 that uses, put an industry claim as p 5 side. indispensable limits are for that. can we do? we want to do without a mobility and auction 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 different chemicals in various phones, solid liquid and gas pool p. fast a synthetic organic compounds or hydrocarbons in which many o lifting hydrogen atoms are replaced by florine 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've discovered that the ground here in restaurants, in southwest germany, where i live, as 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 a half. 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 the window. so within the testing continues for meaning that the farmers animal products will then be examined, just to assure the consumers are protect it, took of allies. now people have contaminated their rights in general that they're relatively unproblematic, and then the grains do absorb pizza all, but not nearly as much as with wage or soybeans for the border to name the few

stack of the skin. it is piece that's becoming less of an issue. you know, it's a constant problem in this area indicating or it turns out that the store 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. we thought was a tough flow house, 70 or 80000 euros were gone just like not taking the time to deal with that to really even it's we live with p 1st no p fos. it's been some of the 2nd

generation and father, i just my father started farming here. my son wants to continue the transition. so we have to come to terms with a to the obviously even with inflation. move in house. if eric rises 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 form. how do piece us enter the environment in the 1st place and what impact do they then have? i've come to this with public research university, e t h in. so rick, to, um, says, profess a mountain shattering, has been studying these compounds for 15 years, and has long warned about the inflationary use of past netflix. and so people roll 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 this caught them flowing pond is so hard to break, but the fast don't think grade in the environment has been so once they've reached

out here to stay in conjunction on woods 5 and wins and want to a me think lessons me because me foster save us a child that deployed in a multitude of ways. for example, in firefighting side, or in every day, objects like furniture, clothes and plastics. knowledge kinds of p fast known as fluoride polymers. i used to cause the surface of frying pans liquid or soap like p fast cold fluoride as effect and make materials, oil and water repellant. and then there were flo renee to o. s. gases which serve as coolants and fridges and heat pumps. v dangerous pieces diffusion, but i live in here with different kinds, but most of them are toxic to a certain degree of phillips. hm. and they damage the liver and kidneys that can cause testicular cancer, extend disruptive lippitt metabolism,

suppressed immune response, and lead to the lowest bomb counts in math. i mean, sort of, i mean, and then how can i find out what contains bi weekly stuff costs as long as, as long as someone's there is down and research is not in patents and industry documents. you want to find out. there's no general registry calls. this could kind of give me a list of places. why know this vile destination? because there is no such requirements as keep the substances around the market tomorrow. and you factor is mine, mixed them into cosmetic creams or apply them to climbing road. the same thing and that doesn't even have to be declined, pardon, investments, don't you think of the recent studies show? p, fostering practically everything may seem batteries, oil and gas plants and tanks, many kinds of paper and competing dental care products and cosmetics, costs refrigerants and medical implants, to name just a few examples to it. so if i don't think it will get to grips with the appropriate

name and then it looks like i missed was the thing. that's why it's because they've sent me a remote symbol comes in. you can't get them back out of the environment. when do you mean it's like once you've pulled window, can you coffee, your own, get it out again, except on a much larger scale. so it's impossible. death is moving here and 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. and so it is for this patient that don't see a show where it's being detected, the blue dog sweat 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 apples and in the case of my home region in south west, in germany,

in fields around a 1000 tech task of from 90 at a highly contaminated. why. how did this become a problem? reach me, i have the reinhardt is a geologist who's an expert at cleaning up p fast hotspots. this comes out so via it happened because so called soil conditioners were applied to the fields and also with the boot and holes capacity, which contained the cope, sludge, a few in particular from nominated paper products. all still pop you in to see the this institution mitsy all popular because people use do to improve the social and instead ended up contaminating it. stuff is in the face of full invite and it's a patchwork of fields contaminated to varying degrees. timing is any possible to a limited extent. wells were closed due to high ph pass levels, cleanup operations

a read. this was once a contaminated field and how it was old, gospel and clean. once kinase manhattan 9 might not know. they dug down roughly one meter utah. this material was in place 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 good stuff as a kind. you just like spots like he's as much as you wish to him cotton. the war to find rain. well, she's the p fuss 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 of i saw plus more than he was the to the water. you can see here is ultimately open ground water. yeah. because there's no gravel so it definitely does cool. and this one and then passes from over there where the in basement is replaced them back into the gravel offer and flows on his ground water . he says, cool in such a vital method. do i have to do that? what does that mean?

florida is the properties and feels safe then? yeah, the of us are going, but the one in this water is taken to irrigate crops, then obviously that will be a problem. so you can see these until chopped a to this that's done. i'm pulled name 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 will to hear the fellow will pass no row to knowing as each a remnant from the production of no mistake coatings and p false or path flow row obtained so fun, i cast that houston firefighting site despite those being pretty much band for years, they've built up in ground floor 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 carbon sites,

back feel free to speed. when probably change is the most uninstalling, so it's clean. there's advisor to sign those. this is the 1st time cleans up. but some time after we've put in a new carbon filter site, we take most your samples, you might be to holding control. and you can see that it's clean on, so it's on point. so when the carpet is such a rated the p 5 spring through 20, then we realize it's not working anymore has to be at least and that's why the 2nd silo is there to catch it. the same process number, i think it's the emergency side of it so nothing bunt can happen and it's kind of specing on the of the they change the currently we change when siler per year in 2000. as this call, it said something like this cost more current basis of $7.00 or $8000.00 euros seems off. that was no one i know to i. yes. have you ever considered switching the top southwest trouble is off the farm like this? well, the reason why it's like having a house with a dead body in the center and then the last to buy it was

a lie you currently got accept this based on finally cover. so the situation is a precarious one. yeah, press continue to find the way into the environment. why the consequences, a well known and european union will sorry to have reacted by issuing regulations and prohibiting certain types of pieces in 2006, they found people's in 2008, restrictions on the food stuff in 2020 a ban on p fella and limits on 20 sorts of p, fos, in drinking water in 2022, a band on personnel ro heck, sane. so funded candidates. and in 2023, a strict drinking water directive. people can just do what they want as their own ruin. some of the use of p 5 c, they sufficient or do you items not escape will buy it as a global convention. the currently includes 3 kinds of paper sort of band worldwide,

about, but that's the tip of the iceberg, cause i stuck if you want to add payment has to have a product. you can do that and they're sticking with us for that. 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. 246. we need well justin energy transition, but a chemicals transition to other under another way of looking at chemical products and thinking about what way using them fall into in walton amounts. 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 that could soon change the you is considering a radical proposal, the production marketing and uses o p fast to 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 recent, oh, i'm usually the bond covering not just individual substances but the whole not for me to mr. yeah, this is very and usually a 1st and in fact in many cases, dfcs not only monthly toxic, but that also it's streaming persistence, which means they can't get out of control to ok. also for political hawkins, when he's in front of they concluded that due to this persistence problem and the gravity of the situation, it's appropriate to group loyalty fast together. when does, that's an almost unprecedented step. and e, u, a one that the chemical industry believes is in fact, because not all p fast, all the same i knew i seemed to today, shed in the netherlands, is home to us. company come was august european production site in operation for

over 60 years. it makes flo road 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, it's kind of stuck questions directory over that. but the offices in writing and they said without fluoride problem is semi conduct. his batteries and hydrogen technology made in your rep would no longer be competitive. and i saw a duct fountain doors, i swim investing 75000000 euros to reduce pizza submissions by as a 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 kimble 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 to me from them for our safety. you suit the company, why? we think they must have known it when they were here producing. and that's i will claim that to be safe. will you have known that the chemicals you use, 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 p fun. the council has already shots, drinking more to wells,

and advises people not to eat, purchase gro, near the lake, or swim minutes or as it is. and it's now taking cameras to coast. uh, is your goal 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 to forever chemicals to pay foss. 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 capitol 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 palm twin term 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 effected besides the event and that the health of thousands of people is monitored to this day. and just like in the region i'm from was like, well i no longer live in the affected area. maybe i should also have my lunch questions or i'll get the test results back in a few days time. we evidently need to find a way of doing was out for effect 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 glazes 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. this fire academy firefight is really on how to extinguish flames with p fast free 5. i could pets the is there. instruct, tapping either the deputy chief of the factory fiber gauge. he used to work a lot with phone that contains p fast because today he trains colleagues to put out big blazes 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 pots at phase, we can receive them all, and all that is exactly what did it still covering the combustible material and prevent it from about breathing and possibly re ignited in the fall. so dump the be upset so this time can simply be disposed of normally of the mountains and phone with p f. s 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 large files 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 city. in 1st, we have to find out how to extinguish fires when the flooring is pre phone and then

what adjustments need to be made the equipment and how do we need to clean the vehicles and tanks to ensure that the p fos, from the old tom was really gone and isn't now in the newsome mission open line. so i'm going to be other than i the people that right away made off of that 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 the and also think now we know it's a major project for every vehicle in the fire extinguishing system itself 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 other firms following since the funds had of development. bettina hold gives me

a tour of the account. this is water repellant. right? yeah. so you know, they always be fast free now. i them. yeah, yes, yeah. okay. it should. the production of new fabrics is a bit more involved. lots of to generations of developments and lots of trial and error then now just as move to resistant and durable as tech styles coated with pay fast. yeah, the, the amount of water coming out of the shower is equivalent to heavy rain full, but at least a nice and dry p fast free out to wet works and is now widely available. so i'm like, it was a long journey to sleep. we had to convince the chemical industry to do something and was 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 since 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, the some point green piece launch detox campaign was a big focus on p 1st and the outdoor and supports square industry wasn't publicly taken to task outcomes 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 and i'm guessing that was all tricky. are clearly the industry needs and also time to come up with alternatives. but who is the lease us industry? exactly. the major manufacturer is a, based in the us that produce all life, including in europe, 3 m, known freights that he saves and face masks, is

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 advert chemicals in drinking water. the us multinational 3 m says it's reached a tentative 10 worldwide. 3 m is facing hundreds of low suits, related to p cost pollution. in 2023 and known it's settled in array of claims in the us by agreeing to pay of a $10000000000.00 in american history. next, i head over to the 3 m subsidy re dining, located in gained off the various largest chemical talk. the pound switch 3 m plans to close soon lies on the river. it's this region has been battling p fast pollution. for years, the fishing contaminated and drinking water has to be filled since i'm not allowed on the high security factory grounds. so that will be no interview with dine in. it

makes flu road. pelham is used to cope components and chemical plants and in the production of micro chips. the man i'm meeting here is the chemical pox for my direct to now spokesman for a low be great backing this location. and but he was letting me onto the grounds either. instead, he takes me to a meeting room with an aerial photo of the chemical plant on the scene. so we're right up there in that white building does. uh huh. where exactly of the piece that's produced. a yeah there because i assumed you so much. i now have the operations here on the edge of the factory premises in this and seated 0 of the 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 divorced on

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. has you on this page industry? i think that's why it was so attached to this pacey, hang on. this was done 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 floor, a polymers that are produced here. and it's not possible for technological reasons, takes the location for the cooling carbon in florida. and i found the strong this bon known and chemistry next. and that's why they can't be replaced, can, does, he can, can use it as it stands. now, done. so now is it, but you also can't force other items to behave like flooring nice what this be. so it's a material properties stuff i can shift the home. yes. and i agree. gasoline powered car as a key little of little polymers on a teaser fruit. put another thing in electric version and we'll have to come to

your house. i'm 15 minutes. do we want to do without e mobility? when i want to do without chip reduction or 5 g technology lane of defense key taking a look if it's a fuel cell is hydrogen electrolysis since they're all involved. floral polymer membranes, putting him on no thesis equals no energy transition and no future technologies for the cam delta spokesman, this seems to be no doubts. his group even expects the market for us to grow and is now being for production to continue a gained of stuff to invest in 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 frank, look to visit to small style top cold be on a 6 switch. he's investigating new ways of making fuel cells to date,

fuel cells have all required pumps that contain p fast, like many other hydrogen technologies. oh i, that's all that's about it. why is the 16 strong team? is he on assess these trying to change that before the cfo these along that tells us how far they've come. this is how fuel cells walk the fuel cells transform chemical energy from say, 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 teresa t. 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 p size probably ends the membrane in the electrode is made of for flu, rosel sonic acid health, which belongs to the dfcs family us to the p 1st, correct capital. so phones are fluid, also sonic acid has a high proton conductivity and permeability total categories. that's why p 5. so there's a popular option right now, as i'm, as it performs messed 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 on 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 standard, or i think about them. but the technology isn't market ready yet. additional will be mark plus us. that's when do you expect to see because it was in the 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. how about different understood, but ours aren't the only components in the fuel cell stack that use p fast and the manufacturers of the gas diffusion layers. i'm a sealants also need to follow sylvester this from the, from the naturalist. i'll not seen me if i know 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 between 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 continue to buy and compete. we get some news from door to the verdict is being reached in the trial against

cameras, the local authority, one the judge rules that come was 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 fuss together. but i think we really dependent on p f. s 9. know me the film and these companies on that they should be searching for alternatives. in many areas they've already started having to find alternatives. trick is a great up searching innovation. ultimately, i can't even seen some listening today. the biggest proportion of p fast going to

air conditioners, cooling systems, and to heat pumps in the form of flu. renee to the gases which you used is refrigerants. the more heat pumps will be needed as we transition to green. a sources of energy here at the found whole for institution, fryeburg, lena snob, 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 natural 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, thomas, i'm on a fixed or not, i don't know even how well did they work upon propane is a tried and true refrigerant is, and it works just as well as existing refrigerants. 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 rather small when you can see that that's a device like this has meant to heat an entire house. and where does the refrigerant flow here? this is the compressor, it's the components that pumps it 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 pain is farmable. that's the big issue. what is it? and if you wouldn't have a problem with having a propane heat pump ahead on, you said that i wouldn't just because i have a feeling. so what the company's really put into it. i don't want to measure is to

see how much refrigerant you really need. and then i just focus 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 so practical. that continued production means that p fast will also keep accumulating in the grounds in range. and also, you know, abilities i have an appointment with a toxicologist from gemini, is 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 aided chemicals in your blood and cera, ma'am, look and see if i'm good for me. mm hm. we found a little more p fella,

then p for which is bank. same because the fella is a substance that already has an effect at low concentrations and concepts that soon booked and your contamination is so high that we can loud with any certainty that it won't affect your health. our season can boil and that means watts. so yeah, the fact that you're in relatively good company today, we haven't found a single person, children's teenagers or adults. i knew where the substances weren't present excuses to finish having enough buys and couldn't. how did they get to my bulging mind cup and it comes to of i should likely through food and drink. but if you got frequent conception of eggs, efficiency food or organ meats or that you know vine is and i haven't eaten meat for 30 years. oh isn't oh that's tough, it's of course that's good. but also disconcerting about what i'm getting in this thing. so is it oh, from compass obviously. yeah. yeah. this is included is this is everywhere in the environment because the v t a is this, i didn't vouchers is busy. personally,

i find it annoying that we spend so much time discussing whether to take counter measures against forever. chemicals getting most number guy from the site, so you are in favor of a band opposite. absolutely. invite you to a 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, i'm, what can i do about it? 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 was such is disagree with the escape securely. and they're also talking the

individual product, the web piece, last a very important thing, which we call essential have to come on to additional hot phone. so i'll send a cube sort of test alone, for example, the item full filter of polymers for dialysis machines, where it's vital does not, doesn't compost vein talking about what we 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 meet 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 but 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. so sounds like a crazy idea. our info is huge and loud. here's, here's the sort of the sprinkler quickly water to rinse away the larger elements. it's a simple enough set to save when shake and keep repeating until the pieces are released

into the water. you can see the pathos during the washing process, the firefighting firm that's soaked into the component of grounds. don't spend me again. the brown stuff on top, you know, right? this is a part of the facility where the contamination wash water is really out of the soil, all the pieces and they to filters out of the water and didn't send a ray to disposed of 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 efforts and funding is this does overboard and how can this only be done here or could this be applied to other clean up sites that wouldn't the special buyer has to be washable tony play like soil the crumbs 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 or that kind of goes long since production. the end of tomorrow we might be dealing with was a contaminants that harms environments. ones that we don't know yet, and i think it's assistive fee and tax, but there's still a chance to stop these chemicals from playing us for rather be fast. we doesn't guessing ridge of p fast, whether in contamination site. so production process is will be extremely complex. and possibly, we might not succeed straight away, but we'll pay an even higher price if we don't even try

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