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minus-square@SpicyLizards@reddthat.comlinkfedilink0•1 year agoTldr; In 2022, a team at University of California at Riverside discovered that blasting wastewater with special “short-wave” ultraviolet rays causes PFAS chemical bonds to break down without creating harmful byproducts.
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