Stoiber and her EEC colleagues observe consumer class water filtration systems available in the USA. Organization tests have shown that joint filters from brands such as Brita and Berkey Not everyone removes PFA as well. But some do an excellent job based on EEC tests, including a fracture filter system made by Epic Water Filters, an American company.
“I would say that PFAS is by far the most important pollution that we receive feedback for our clients, which are worried,” says Joel Stevens, co -founder of epic water filters. Filters that his company creates, water jugs, include a coal block. “Thousands on thousands of layers of carbon fibers that are wrapped around the block,” he explains. When the water flows through these fibers, carbon takes off PFA and other dirt, including chlorine and lead.
In about three months, the company will introduce a recent pitcher filter, which can also remove bulky metals and fluorine. Fluorine is added to water in some areas to improve teeth health, although some prefer not to drink it because of the potential relationship between fluoride and adverse neurological effects. Scientific analysis suggests That the risk of tap water in countries like the US is very low.
Although there are several very effective water filtering products on the market, Stoiber says, many people are still throwing released garbage filters, which means that they ultimately finish at the storage space where PFA can rinse the environment again.
Customers of epic water filters can return the released filters to the company. “Filters are then sent to a special recycling center, in which plastic is recycled and internal filters are burned,” says Stevens in the next email.
Stoiber research suggests that some forms of combustion of PFAS materials can release harmful compounds to the environment. “We still don’t have good recommendations for removing media of treatment,” he says. However, it is possible to break up the PFAS relationships, Fr. Extremely high temperaturesEven 1500 degrees Celsius (2730 F). Some researchers are currently examining how chemical additives, such as granular activated carbon, can be reduce the required amount of heat break up the PFAS relationships.
There is another problem with current approaches to PFA. “At this point, what is needed is what is needed because the costs should not fall on the individual,” says Stoiber. “It should not be unfair, who has a filter that is not who is unveiled.”
While some drinking water services in the USA are currently installing vast -scale PFAS filtration technology, For example, in Tampa, FloridaThe cost of doing it throughout the country She could drink in billionsaccording to some analyzes. While Stoiber claims that the most effective strategy of avoiding PFA pollution is not above all the employ of these chemicals, countless companies are still doing this, and it may take a long time before they completely disappear from consumer products, if it happens.
For now, there is a risk that the Trump administration may weaken the recent American water regulations that require the removal of some PFAS molecules from tap water resources, says Stoiber. “We are fighting for the protection of drinking water regulations that have just been adopted,” he says. “I think all eyes are on it.”