Frightening lack of foresight

[Courier]

Cost of dealing with PFAS problem sites ‘frightening’, says Environment Agency

Cost of dealing with PFAS problem sites ‘frightening’, says Environment Agency

Exclusive: EA warns it lacks budget to tackle England’s rising number of potential ‘forever chemicals’ locations

www.theguardian.com

 

[Yale]

So why do farmers accept sewage sludge spreading these toxins on their land.

Legal action could end use of toxic sewage sludge on US crops as fertilizer

Intent to sue federal regulators charges they have failed to address dangerous levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ known to be in sludge

www.theguardian.com

 

[bluebell]

We now cant escape inhaling or ingesting plastics, they are in the air, in the sea water and in the fish and mammels that live in the oceans and then that we eat, modern life?

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

It's a Barbie world....Plastic fantastic

 

[DaveGrohl]

We now cant escape inhaling or ingesting plastics, they are in the air, in the sea water and in the fish and mammels that live in the oceans and then that we eat, modern life?

Human brains now have 0.5% plastics by weight.

Microplastics have been found in arterial plaques. There was a study published recently where they monitored people’s plaques for microplastics. Three years later they found that those with detectable plaque microplastics had 4.5 times the mortality rate.

Although PFAS aren’t exactly strictly plastics…

Microplastics vs. PFAS: Distinguishing Between Two Environmental Contaminants

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[Tarw Coch]

We now cant escape inhaling or ingesting plastics, they are in the air, in the sea water and in the fish and mammels that live in the oceans and then that we eat, modern life?

Indeed, yet so many seem to think that 0.0412% of the atmosphere, a natural gas without which plant life and anything depending on plant life wouldn’t exist, is destroying the planet .
I do wonder if it’s diversionary tactics, the chemical industries saying ooooh look at this problem over here, taking the focus off more serious issues……. …..but I guess that makes me a conspiracy theorist

 

[Werzle]

EA might as well not bother, they seem to love getting involved in anything to do with monitoring and sod all to do with actual work.

 

[Courier]

The latest

EA might as well not bother, they seem to love getting involved in anything to do with monitoring and sod all to do with actual work.

The latest Windermere revelations just about prove that theory …..
If i stretch my thought processes I can just about see where coastal dumping makes sense (tides etc) but dumping significant quantities of raw sewage into Peter Wabbit’s lake …… FFS