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.
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.