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Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by s1artibartfast on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @07:30PM (#36964750)
If we're talking about groundwater contamination, then yes, the major contributor is firefighters and US Government facilities based on the numbers I've seen. It's not food packaging making it hundreds of feet underground and leaching out into rivers.

Scroll through these 180 pfas contamination Superfund sites and count how many are government facilities versus private companies.

https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/superfund-sites-...

Re:Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever ch... by mrguyorama on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @03:12PM (#36975614)
I'm mostly talking about breadth of harm, ie that PFAS is quite literally everywhere, rather than depth of harm, ie a couple hundred rivers have been made into poison. If the damage was exclusively contained to these rivers, the cleanup would be obscenely expensive, but possible. Currently cleanup is basically impossible.