Read the full article by Damien Gayle (The Guardian).
“Environmental campaigners have criticised a ‘crushingly disappointing’ UK government plan to tackle ‘forever chemicals’, which they warn risks locking in decades of avoidable harm to people and the environment.
The government said its Pfas action plan set out a ‘clear framework’ of ‘coordinated action … to understand where these chemicals are coming from, how they spread and how to reduce public and environmental exposure’.
But campaigners described the plan as ‘incredibly weak’ and criticised its failure to match tough action taken in Europe, where national governments are already banning chemicals on the grounds of public safety before EU-wide action.
Already thought to be in the blood of every person on the planet, man-made per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (Pfas) – a family of thousands of chemicals – are used in a huge range of consumer products, from waterproof clothing to electronics.”…