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PFAS 'forever chemicals' cost society €16 trillion a year

https://euobserver.com/green-economy/157075



This is absurd. The GDP of the entire world is on the order of ~$100T. How can this article claim that 15% of all GDP is spent/lost due to PFAS without going through absurd calculations like how long it would take to remove every bit of it from water supplies using current inefficient methods? (Obv I'm not paying for a euobserver subscription)


This page contains the figures / calculations (first link in the euobserver's article).

https://chemsec.org/reports/the-top-12-pfas-producers-in-the...

The top 12 PFAS producers in the world and the staggering societal costs of PFAS pollution

Only twelve companies account for a majority of the PFAS production in the world. PFAS production is hardly profitable, but the cost for society is massive.




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