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🤔 Here is a crazy thought: what if we took the current logic of EU #chemicals legislation and applied it to traffic rules... How would that play out?

🐟 After years of negotiations, the EU finally struck a deal last week to update their rules on water pollution. The deal is progress on paper, but something about it seems… fishy.

🪓 The European Chemicals Agency recently announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses.

👇🏻 Here are five reasons why this decision is a complete disaster.

😮 Is your feed flooded with gee-whizz, super-duper #PFAS clean-up technologies?

🧻 We all hope innovations can clean up the PFAS mess. Indeed, they are vital. But it doesn’t matter how much PFAS we take out if we keep on pumping them into the environment.

👀 Is Europe’s chemical industry teaming up with the USA?

🧐 Cefic, the trade association, has joined with their US equivalent to demand “simplification” (i.e. deregulation).

🔔 Alarm bells! The ACC position is basically that if REACH was a country, they’d nuke it.

👁️ We will be watching...

🐝 Ecologists and other scientists studying #biodiversity have identified five main drivers of the ongoing decline of the planet’s species — habitat destruction, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, invasive alien species and 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.

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🍼 Everyday items like electronics, scented products, plastics, clothes, and food packaging often contain 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀 that alter your hormonal system.

🤔 Which is the first chemical or consumer product that pops into your mind when you think of hormone disruptors?