One drop of PFAS can contaminate an Olympic sized swimming pool, and 90 percent of us are carrying it in our blood. Dana Vazquez, cofounder and Chief Commercial Officer at Coflux Purification, explains why the current industrial fix is basically a giant Brita filter headed for a landfill, and how her team built a material that captures forever chemicals and destroys them in one step. Plus the liability bill coming for companies that wait, and what it takes to get a first skid into the field.
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00:00 Intro 01:14 Meet Dana Vazquez 02:04 What PFAS is and why it never leaves 06:23 From consulting to co-founding 09:12 How the technology works 13:44 Scaling up and staying modular 16:47 The regulation picture 18:40 Liability is the real driver 23:30 Home filters and what actually works 26:45 Funding the build 30:46 Why this one is personal 32:25 The first field deployment 37:03 Scientists and business people 42:43 What the fall looks like 45:36 The trouble with testing 47:15 Where to find Coflux
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