Re:Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS
by ars on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:20PM
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They are not close enough! You are destroying your messaging and activism by combining them in this way.
Tell a manufacturer "stop adding Teflon it's not safe" and they will laugh at you. Tell them "stop adding PFAS it's not safe" and they might actually listen.
> Teflon is shorthand for all of the fluorinated hydrocarbons in my mind.
That's a VERY un-smart thing to do!
Saying they are the same because of the molecule is like complaining salt is unsafe before it has chlorine in it.
Tell a manufacturer "stop adding Teflon it's not safe" and they will laugh at you. Tell them "stop adding PFAS it's not safe" and they might actually listen.
> Teflon is shorthand for all of the fluorinated hydrocarbons in my mind.
That's a VERY un-smart thing to do!
Saying they are the same because of the molecule is like complaining salt is unsafe before it has chlorine in it.