Inside The Fight To Ban — And Destroy — Pfas ‘forever Chemicals’

Siôn Geschwindt, The Next Web
Sun, 05/12/2024 - 11:00pm

For over 40 years, Ted Van der Vlies and his wife Marga grew fruits and vegetables in their backyard on the outskirts of Dordrecht, the Netherlands. Onions, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, rhubarb, cherries, you name it. Little did they know that their homegrown produce was likely poisoning them. Just a kilometre away from their garden sits the tangled mesh of steel pipes, giant vats, and smokestacks of the Chemours chemical plant.

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Inside The Fight To Ban — And Destroy — Pfas ‘forever Chemicals’

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