The site of the American chemical company 3M in Zwijndrecht emitted large quantities of HFC-23 for years. This is an extremely heavy greenhouse gas. The additional emission of more than 120 tons of (mainly) HFC-23 that was 'suddenly' detected in 2019 is the equivalent of 1.78
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The Flemish Parliament unanimously gave the green light for the first Flemish parliamentary inquiry committee in 21 years. The PFOS pollution at 3M in Zwijndrecht contains all the ingredients of a classic Belgian scandal: economic interests clash with public health, a government company (Lantis) is involved
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Within a radius of ten kilometres around the 3M factory in Zwijndrecht, it is not recommended to eat eggs from your own chickens or vegetables from your own garden. In Menen in West Flanders and surrounding municipalities, this has been the case for eighteen years
More than 15% of the more than 420 Flemish teenagers examined have too high a mix of four so-called perfluorinated compounds or PFAS in their blood. This is evident from a recent update of the Flemish Human Biomonitoring Program. A calculation last year, based on
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Although the substance has been around for decades, hardly anyone in Flanders had heard of PFOS until recently. The company premises of manufacturer 3M in Zwijndrecht and the surrounding grounds are contaminated with tons of the chemical waste. With serious risks
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Attorney Rob Bilott has been fighting DuPont, the chemical giant that deliberately poisoned his client Wilbur Tennant's farm with PFOA, for over twenty years. The lawsuit he filed exposed the largest environmental scandal in the United States. In his
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