The third international ZeroPM workshop on Removal through Technical Solutions was a great success at the University of the Aegean in Mytilene, Greece! These were two productive days of discussing from broad stakeholder points of view on technical solutions and monitoring of PFAS and PMT substances, and interlinking this with prevention and prioritization strategies!
Main take away: Though many improvements on technical solutions to remove PFAS from the environment exist, no technology fits all contamination issues, each has different tradeoffs and ultimately if implemented full scale this only will remove a minor fraction of the TFA and other PFAS accumulating in the environment.
We therefore need more work with the toxic-free hierarchy: Prevent first, Prioritize second, Removal as the last option. If we do not prevent more PFAS uses and emissions, we won’t be able to stop the tap of PFAS accumulating in our food, water, ecosystem and blood with removal.
Our thanks to all the speakers and attendees!
In the coming weeks we will be releasing some materials from the workshop on our website: https://zeropm.eu/removal-workshop/
Stay tuned!
Thanks again to the main organizers Athanasios Stasinakis, Olga-Ioanna Kalantzi, Hans Peter Arp and Sarah Hale
