Even after phasing out PFOA under pressure, DuPont and its spinoff Chemours have continued releasing the toxic substance into the environment, leading to recent Congressional demands for an explanation.
So, it’s not even about profits anymore. You’re now PAYING to poison Americans. How is this ok? Not that it was ok before, but this takes it to a whole NEW level of evil.
They knowingly poisoned the world. Expected a better headline from medium, for some reason.
Medium’s just a collection of random writers though. Some ignorance is expected.
That’s the for some reason in my comment. I know why we got that headline. I do not know why I expected better; Was medium ever any better than this?
99.9% of all life on the planet.
My take on “world” is the living, breathing parts of the planet that make it anything more than the third large rock orbitting a random star … so, yeah, sure, let’s go with: you got my meaning exactly.
Did you watch Dark Water?
Regardless of how they screwed up, the PFOAS should not be banned. They should be restricted to uses that require the material for national defense and for technology development. There’s stuff that PFOAS can do that not much else can. For example cooking utensils are a dumb use, but components for machines that make cars or solar panels. For example capacitors need the material because it has a high voltage breakdown. Smart uses, not stupid wasteful and polluting uses.
Uncontrolled discharge of waste in all uses is a major issue for all PFOAs though and I am not sure that there is anyway to handle the waste that it doesn’t get back into the environment.
It’s actually very simple. Waste management is expensive, so pass that expense on to the technology that needs PFOAS. If they do that by law requirement, then the problem will correct itself because it would be too expensive to use on stupid things like cooking pots.
I just watched this on Saturday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3p4BH7U4kM
If someone doesn’t have the time for all that, here’s a rap song about the last 400 or so years of the company.
How dare they do what they are incentivized to do
