Read the full article by Rachel Salvidge and Leana Hosea (The Guardian)
“Efforts to restrict the production of plastic ‘forever chemicals’ that could threaten public health have been met with a large-scale coordinated attack by the multibillion pound industries that make and use them.
Industry-funded research and exaggerated claims litter the arguments made by the fluoropolymer industry against stricter regulation, a year-long investigation by the Forever Lobbying Project, a cross-border investigation involving 46 journalists and 18 experts across 16 countries can reveal.
Fluoropolymers are high performance plastics and a type of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) – a group of more than 10,000 human-made chemicals that will not break down in the environment for tens of thousands of years, if ever, earning them the nickname ‘forever chemicals.’ …