Panel: PFAS after capture: Who pays to destroy it?
As treatment requirements grow and destruction technologies move towards deployment, utilities face difficult decisions over cost, energy use, liability and investment. Everybody agrees PFAS should be removed from the water cycle. The harder question is who ultimately pays to destroy it. What can the first regions tackling the challenge at scale teach everyone else? What evidence on performance, whole-life cost and residual waste management will utilities need before procuring destruction technologies at scale?