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Using 3D printing, researchers developed lattices which removed up to 75 per cent of PFOA, one of the most common forever chemicals.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/jCkHu

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if, I know this is crazy, what if we stopped poisoning the planet, and ourselves?

I'm intrigued! How would we make a profit doing this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The plan is that we get companies to pay us to use our brand marking on their packaging, and then for every ten million dollars we receive we don't dump an arbitrarily large tank of horrible chemicals into the groundwater of an underprivileged community. In this way, as our profits increase, less and less poison will be irrevocably added to vital planetary resources! Incidentally our headquarters is in a volcano and the "Zero Poison" profit level for the first year is ten billion dollars.