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Fundamental right: open letter in response to the extra Antwerp city council

current, In the media | Fundamental right / By Cliff

Dear Mayor,
Dear members of the city council,
Dear members of the municipal council,
We are writing this letter to you on behalf of an ever-growing group of concerned residents of Antwerp, the beautiful city that we have entrusted to you with complete confidence. We are writing to you because we are concerned about the pollution of our city with PFOS and the consequences for the health of all Antwerp residents. But we are writing to you mainly because we have the impression that at 't Schoon Verdiep, in contrast to outside, there is still no sense of urgency about this problem. Seen from the left bank, it remains quiet on the other side, and so we feel abandoned.

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de Volkskrant: Polluted soil in Flanders: there may be poison in the eggs, but they are very tasty

Researchers have known for years that there were huge quantities of the toxic substance pfos (from the pfas category) in the soil near the Flemish Zwijndrecht, but the government never raised the alarm. Now there is an uproar, but not all

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Eggs for Homans

report / By Cliff

Many concerned citizens came to deposit their eggs during our SIT-IN on June 15, 2021. We did not just collect those eggs. Eva and Jonas went to the Flemish parliament on Wednesday afternoon and delivered the eggs, with our concerned message, to the chairman

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nrc›: Flemish government has known for years about contaminated soil at chemical factory

In the media / By Cliff

PFOS The soil around the Flemish Zwijndrecht contains up to 26 times more PFOS than the standard. The government has been aware of this since 2017, reports VRT. 17.06.2021 | nrc› Majda Ouhajji

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apache: 3M emitted huge amounts of heavy greenhouse gas for years

In the media / By Cliff

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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Knack: Foreign waste containing PFAS incinerated in Antwerp

In the media / By Cliff

In one year, more than 15,000 tons of foreign waste containing PFAS was incinerated in the Antwerp waste processing company Indaver. This is evident from figures from Flemish Minister of the Environment Zuhal Demir, which were requested by Groen MP Mieke Schauvliege. 'Without knowing how much PFAS was so

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Greenpeace: PFAS and PFOS: what about the toxic soil in Antwerp?

In the media / By Cliff

The newspapers in Flanders were full of it in recent weeks: heavily polluted soil and groundwater in and around Zwijndrecht, Antwerp. What is going on, what needs to be done and who is going to pay for it? We list a number of

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apache: Zwijndrecht not unique: home-grown has long been discouraged in six polluted zones

In the media / By Cliff

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

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apache: Too high concentration of PFAS in blood of 15% controlled young people

In the media / By Cliff

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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apache: The Cat and the PFOS Waste Men

In the media / By Cliff

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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