"Current costs to remove perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs), a subclass of PFAS, from the environment at the same rate they are being added were estimated here at 20 to 7000 trillion USD per year."
--Ling, A.L. 2024. “Estimated Scale of Costs to Remove PFAS from the Environment at Current Emission Rates.” Science of the Total Environment 918. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170647.
Tag: environment
Carbon Fixation
It is common practice for companies in the electronics sector to publish annual environmental reports. These reports can be very enlightening. After all, they represent a story about a given company in a situation in […]
Rebound Bites Google
Google’s new environmental report for 2024 is out and it makes some remarkable disclosures. Both The Register (Mann 2024) and The Guardian (Milmo 2024) have reported on the 48 percent rise in Google’s carbon output […]
Software Centricity
Discard studies offers an important concept for tech criticism: defamiliarization. The concept comes from the worlds of art and theatre and basically refers to some sort of device that helps make the familiar or taken […]
Electronic Planet Research Lab 