Veritasium

How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet

The podcast investigates the widespread contamination of PFAS "forever chemicals," tracing their history from the development of Teflon to current health concerns. It highlights how DuPont's search for a safer fridge gas led to the creation of Teflon, and subsequently, the use of PFOA (C8) in its production. Despite in...

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