Common, cheap ingredients can break down some ‘forever chemicals’
#PFAS don’t typically degrade but lye and dimethyl sulfoxide help break some of their atomic bonds
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pfas-forever-chemicals-degrade-lye-chemistry
@londubh
So cool, now we just have to dump a bunch of lye and dimethyl sulfoxide in our rivers and heat them up at 120° C and our land water pollution problem will be solved!
I mean, surely cool research in the right direction; but this is nowhere near a solution and I wouldn't sell it so sensationalistically.
To use this process you would first have to isolate the PFAS in water to then destroy them; thus you would have to get the PFAS out of the rivers in the first place, which is the problem that we should solve.
This article provides a way to destroy PFAS that are already isolated; I guess this could be used in production processes that generate PFAS waste, that would be great!
@rastinza it would work for wells that have contaminated groundwater. That’s a specific application I’m thinking of. There isn’t going to be a one size fits all solution for PFAS.
