Polluants éternels: au Japon, les habitants de Kibichūō se révoltent
Autrefois liée aux abords des bases militaires, la #pollution aux #PFAS s’est propagée sur le territoire japonais, jusqu’aux villages les plus reculés. C’est le cas de Kibichūō, dans la préfecture d’Okayama, où des riverains ont décidé de se battre.
9 things you need to know about the inside story of how 3M allowed PFOS to seep into all of us while sitting on research that showed the chemical is toxic.
"Het RIVM heeft bepaald dat in zwembaden maximaal 71 nanogram PEQ per liter mag zitten, waarbij PEQ een verzamelnaam is voor alle PFAS-verbindingen. Voor recreatieplassen geldt een norm van 280 nanogram. "In de recreatieplas De Betteld zit 4530 nanogram PEQ per liter. Dat is wel heftig." PFAS-expert Jonker juicht de negatieve zwemadviezen toe, maar vindt dat voor De Betteld eigenlijk een verbod moet worden ingesteld."
thinking about how we know PFAS get into testicles and how sperm counts have been dropping in the West since for as long as I've been alive (and also for as long as these chemicals have been commercially available) and how the macho men with their obsession of 'virility' and breeding are going to take this betrayal.
It's Capitalism or your balls lads, and your masters chose the Coin over your tatty sacks.
> After the late ’70s, when 3M scientists established that the chemical was toxic in animals and was accumulating in humans, it produced millions of pounds per year.
> all people have at least one forever chemical in their blood, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"What Hansen didn’t know was that 3M had already conducted animal studies — two decades earlier. They had shown PFOS to be toxic, yet the results remained secret, even to many at the company."
Commercial companies have institutionalised fooling people, by dismissing their profit is bad for peoples' health while they already know that in fact it is.
It is criminal and should be treated as such.
Huge piles of #PFAS#foreverchemicals foam in Battle Creek, about a mile south of the #3m main research lab, where these were developed as a fire fighting foam. The groundwater here is contaminated from a dump site about 8 miles north, and probably from the laboratories.
Wild idea: how about you don’t poison us for profit?
“The European Commission is planning to allow for wide-ranging exemptions from a proposed ban on substances known as PFAS, or ‘forever chemicals’, to protect key industries, German newspaper Welt reported on Wednesday.”
In Friesland konden ze hun ogen niet geloven, toen ze zagen dat op sommige plekken in het water maar liefst negenhonderd keer zoveel #PFAS zitten als volgens officiële richtlijnen toegestaan.
Mensen krijgen advies niet te zwemmen in de Jelsumer Feart en om hun dieren er niet uit te laten drinken. Mensen met hobbykippen moeten hun eieren weggooien. Moestuinen en akkers moeten niet besproeid worden met water uit de vaart.