PFAS are in everything from pizza boxes to polar bears. Despite major environmental and human health concerns, there are over 4,700 of these industrial chemicals on the market today. Find out what you can do to stop these ‘forever chemicals’ damaging our environment.
Just as plastic pollution is building up around us, so too are these toxic chemicals. The difference is we don’t see the chemicals, we only see their impacts, and by then it’s too late. Known as the ‘forever chemicals’ because they don’t break down, once they get into our environment, they move, they build and they concentrate, but they don’t go away.
PFAS are everywhere, they are in almost all of us and they are in our environment. Studies have shown measurable concentrations of these forever chemicals in people all around the world, from the blood serum of Inuit communities in the Greenlandic Arctic to the breast milk of Norwegian mothers. They have been recorded in air, water, sediment, plants and wildlife. They are found in rain, snow, groundwater, tap water, rivers, lakes and seawater.
PFAS are in Polar bears and PFAS are in puffins. PFAS are in our everyday products and we need this to change.