S4E1 - How to treat PFAS out of Water and protect our Health, Economy and Biodiversity
with ๐๏ธ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity. ๐ง Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications. Their cutting-edge material design and creative engineering approach may provide a...
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with ๐๏ธ Henrik Hagemann is the CEO and Co-Founder of Puraffinity. ย ย ย
๐ง Puraffinity is a GreenTech Company that designs smart materials for environmental applications.
Their cutting-edge material design and creative engineering approach may provide a new horizon to solve the daunting PFAS / Forever chemicals challenge we face.
What we covered:ย
๐ What Polyfluoroalkyl Substances - or PFAS - actually areย ย
๐ How these PFAS enter the Water Cycle somewhen along the way but never exit it. In other words, they bioaccumulate in all of us!ย
๐งฎ How finding PFAS in >97% of people has consequences on health, wellbeing, and overall societal costsย
๐งฎ How PFAS liabilities may also be a risk for the corporate world and Fortune 100 companiesย
๐ How Puraffinity may light a bulb of hope in PFAS treatments, thanks to a sort of "Chemical Pacman"ย
๐ How "Forever Chemicals" are only eternal because we don't take them seriously (yet)!ย
๐ฑ How PFAS could be reused and regenerated from the recycled solvent mediumย
๐ฑ How you can control PFAS flows, removals, and by-products (and how you need to go beyond LC-MS for that)ย
๐ฒ How the bottleneck to PFAS treatments might be at an unexpected place: a shortage of operatorsย
๐ Where PFAS treatments shall ideally be located, and what shape they should takeย
๐ฑ How we shall move on from the human-centric approach to water treatment to also consider the price tag attached to biodiversity lossesย
๐งฎ How to best nudge the adoption of PFAS treatments, from regulations to market incentives through investor activismย
๐งฎ How spinning off from academia to entrepreneurship involves a mindset shift and a readiness for warย
๐ Cycling across the World, studying with monks, time to adoption of new water technologies, being a Forbes 30 under 30 and MIT tech review 35 under 35... and much more!
๐ฅ ... and of course, we concluded with the ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ ๐ฅย
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