3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B

Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by ToJans on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:17AM (#34077308)

In Belgium there is a huge issue with pfas caused by 3M [1], having contaminated things like drinking water etc, so it's not even safe to eat vegetables from your garden or eggs from your chickens.

It's a massacre TBH, mostly exposing the head-in-the-sand, umbrella using fingerpointing mentality of Belgian politics. I can imagine 3M has sites like these all over the world, so I would assume this only scratches the surface...

Edit: typos, it's early in the morning here ...

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-3m-pfas-toxic-foreve...

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Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by Wronnay on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @10:16AM (#34081719)

There is a similar Issue caused by 3M in Gendorf, Germany - so this is really a problem all over the world - and 3M isn't the only producer of PFAS...

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Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by guerrilla on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:44PM (#34083871)

Multiple big cases here in Sweden, it's on the news almost weekly with a new one.

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Re:3M to end 'forever chemicals' output at cost of up to $2.3B by hungrigekatze on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @03:42PM (#34086136)

There's a pretty informative video on PFAS in Germany; at the end of the video there's a guy in the US (southeast I think) who is located about five miles away from a PFAS plant whose pets keep dying and who is underwater on his mortgage because no one will buy a house near a literal toxic-waste-producing plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovCvW22ol3Y

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