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.
@lebout2canap
J'ai la même sauteuse inox (avec couvercle), trouvée toute neuve à la déchèterie.
Depuis, elle a détrôné ma poêle en fer, parce qu'elle peut aussi bien saisir que mijoter et elle est beaucoup plus simple à entretenir. 👌🏻
Usage quasi quotidien.
"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.
@ProPublica Just watched “DarkWaters” about West Va and how DuPont poisoned waters. But it didn’t end! Coal waste, fracking etc. caused locals to shut down wells and use bottled water. But many still use their wells, animals drink from polluted streams and WV residents still die from high rates of cancer and heart disease. I witnessed my long time friend die of lung cancer. He loved WV and refused to leave. A beautiful place destroyed by man!
@ProPublica
Between the chemical companies and the fossil fuel companies, we are going to have to build a bunch of new prisons to incarcerate all these murderers. How many have died over the decades? It will be impossible to calculate. Those who knew must be prosecuted.
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.