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S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy and Biodiversity

S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy and Biodiversity

From(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World


S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy and Biodiversity

From(don't) Waste Water! | Water Tech to Solve the World

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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Oct 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

with ?️ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity.    
? Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications.
Their cutting-edge material design and creative engineering approach may provide a new horizon to solve the daunting PFAS / Forever chemicals challenge we face.

What we covered: 

? What Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - or PFAS - actually are  
? How these PFAS enter the Water Cycle somewhen along the way but never exit it. In other words, they bioaccumulate in all of us! 
? How finding PFAS in >97% of people has consequences on health, wellbeing, and overall societal costs 
? How PFAS liabilities may also be a risk for the corporate world and Fortune 100 companies 
? How Puraffinity may light a bulb of hope in PFAS treatments, thanks to a sort of "Chemical Pacman" 
? How "Forever Chemicals" are only eternal because we don't take them seriously (yet)! 
? How PFAS could be reused and regenerated from the recycled solvent medium 
? How you can control PFAS flows, removals, and by-products (and how you need to go beyond LC-MS for that) 
? How the bottleneck to PFAS treatments might be at an unexpected place: a shortage of operators 
? Where PFAS treatments shall ideally be located, and what shape they should take 
? How we shall move on from the human-centric approach to water treatment to also consider the price tag attached to biodiversity losses 
? How to best nudge the adoption of PFAS treatments, from regulations to market incentives through investor activism 
? How spinning off from academia to entrepreneurship involves a mindset shift and a readiness for war 
? Cycling across the World, studying with monks, time to adoption of new water technologies, being a Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT tech review 35 under 35... and much more!
? ... and of course, we concluded with the ????? ???? ????????? ? 

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Released:
Oct 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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