Our waterways are becoming more and more polluted due to PFAS, plastics, medicines, drugs, and new chemicals made by companies that just hand over the responsibility of cleaning to plants paid for by public moneys. Detecting the different chemicals and filtering them out if getting harder and harder. Could the simple solution of heating up past a point where even PFAS/forever chemicals decomposes (400C for PFAS, 500C to be more sure about other stuff) be alright?

  • atro_city@fedia.ioOP
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    3 days ago

    when other cheaper solutions (like not polluting in the first place) exist

    That involves convincing your polluting cousin, who doesn’t believes climate change doesn’t exist, not to buy non-stick pans or not to dump their pills into the toilet.

    Edit:

    Let’s assume that heating water to 500C does what you want it to do.

    That’s the question I’m asking btw.

    • naught101@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      You could always regulate and ban toxics at the point of production or sale, before they get into the waste stream