Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate

Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by bilsbie on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:27PM (#36959259)

My uncle said the Replacements for pfas are actually worse. What’s the final word on that?

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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by burnished on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:03PM (#36959853)

There aren't any replacements for them, and its unclear what you mean by worse, less efficacious or more environmentally damaging? If the former then yeah, theres a reason those products took off

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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by polski-g on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:47PM (#36960555)

We used to wrap products in paper or cloth. We could go back to that.

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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by hedora on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:28PM (#36961301)

The regulators have taken a whack-a-mole approach to banning this class of chemicals in the past. The result is that the popular ones that are well-understood get banned, and then replaced with ones that haven't been studied. There's no reason to think the replacements are better or worse, though they are often worse.

The organization in the article is proposing banning production of the entire family of chemicals (~ 12,000 of them) instead of doing it one at a time.

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