PFAS: how to better clean soil from ‘forever chemicals’

Researchers are building a ‘soil washing machine’ on a laboratory scale

07-Feb-2025 - Soil contaminated with harmful perfluorinated and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) is difficult to clean, a complete remediation is often not possible. To improve the remediation process, researchers at the University of Augsburg are trialling various cleaning methods. In order to find the ...