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The Forever Pollution Project last year found more than 17,000 sites contaminated by 'forever chemicals' across Europe. It now estimates cleaning up Europe's PFAS contamination could cost €2 trillion over 20 years, or €100bn annually (Photo: CDC)

How the plastics industry lobbied against a ban on 'forever chemicals'

The initiative to ban so-called 'forever chemicals' (PFAS) sparked a major lobbying and disinformation campaign designed to weaken the proposal, with a cross-border investigation revealing the main tactics on Tuesday (14 January). 

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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

The Forever Pollution Project last year found more than 17,000 sites contaminated by 'forever chemicals' across Europe. It now estimates cleaning up Europe's PFAS contamination could cost €2 trillion over 20 years, or €100bn annually (Photo: CDC)

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Elena is EUobserver's editor-in-chief She is from Spain and has studied journalism and new media in Spanish and Belgian universities. Previously she worked on European affairs at VoteWatch Europe and the Spanish news agency EFE.

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