S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy and Biodiversity | (don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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with 🎙️ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity.

💧 Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications.
Their cutting-edge material design and creative engineering approach may provide a new horizon to solve the daunting PFAS / Forever chemicals challenge we face.

What we covered:

🍎 What Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - or PFAS - actually are

🍎 How these PFAS enter the Water Cycle somewhen along the way but never exit it. In other words, they bioaccumulate in all of us!

🧮 How finding PFAS in >97% of people has consequences on health, wellbeing, and overall societal costs

🧮 How PFAS liabilities may also be a risk for the corporate world and Fortune 100 companies

🍏 How Puraffinity may light a bulb of hope in PFAS treatments, thanks to a sort of "Chemical Pacman"

🍏 How "Forever Chemicals" are only eternal because we don't take them seriously (yet)!

🌱 How PFAS could be reused and regenerated from the recycled solvent medium

🌱 How you can control PFAS flows, removals, and by-products (and how you need to go beyond LC-MS for that)

😲 How the bottleneck to PFAS treatments might be at an unexpected place: a shortage of operators

🍏 Where PFAS treatments shall ideally be located, and what shape they should take

🌱 How we shall move on from the human-centric approach to water treatment to also consider the price tag attached to biodiversity losses

🧮 How to best nudge the adoption of PFAS treatments, from regulations to market incentives through investor activism

🧮 How spinning off from academia to entrepreneurship involves a mindset shift and a readiness for war

🍏 Cycling across the World, studying with monks, time to adoption of new water technologies, being a Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT tech review 35 under 35... and much more!

🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥

➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/how-to-treat-pfas-out-of-water-and-protect-our-health-economy-and-biodiversity/

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On the "(don't) Waste Water" podcast, I strive to make the Water Industry easy to understand for everyone, starting with water professionals, executives, and investors. Hence, he opens the microphone to seasoned, inspirational water experts to discuss their field of excellence.

No one can claim an all-around in-depth understanding of a matter as complex as Water. But piece by piece, you can rebuild the puzzle. With curiosity, patience, and passion, Antoine Walter explores topics such as Advanced Treatment Technologies, Water-Energy Nexus (Hydrogen, Lithium...), PFAS removal, Nature-Based Solutions, Wastewater Reuse, Distributed Water Treatments, Water Finance, and Water Entrepreneurship.

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