S7E15 - Should We Really Destroy PFAS? No! Your Fridge Knows a Better Way. | (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:

🚀 How it might be time to build the SpaceX of PFAS removal, and how Puraffinity strives to do it

♻️ How PFAS reuse fully changes the paradigm (for the better)

🎤 What exactly changed in June 2022, and how the US EPA's announcements impact the PFAS roadmap

📰 How miracle PFAS removal technologies that break the news have to be placed into their context

🔬 How, with the new PFAS regulations, we enter the realm of parts per quadrillion

⏰ How PFAS removal has greenhouse gas emission consequences and how the 2030 clock is ticking

🔭 How Puraffinity strives to monitor what comes next in PFAS science, regulation, and roll-out

⚖️ How Utilities' new PFAS liability may represent an unfair burden, considering they don't reap the benefit of the chemicals' first use

🧊 How PFAS are everywhere around us in our daily lives and how it is an Iceberg we may want to address as a whole

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

🔗 Check Puraffinity's Website

🔗 Send your warmest regards to Henrik on LinkedIn

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➡️ Check out the full story (and an infographic) on how PFAS Recycling may turn the PFAS treatment challenge into a circular economy solution

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