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minus-squareSpicyLizardslinkfedilinkarrow-up41·18 days 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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