Research suggests waste incinerators are contributing to airborne PFAS pollution, which U.S. regulators aren't tracking.
“Much is currently unknown” about how PFAS compounds behave during incineration, a spokesperson for the EPA’s Office of Research and Development wrote in an email to, explaining that PFAS molecules at lower temperatures may not break apart or may decompose partially and recombine to form new PFAS.
The Solid Waste Association of North America has more confidence that incinerators “designed to manage non-hazardous waste are destroying most of the PFAS in municipal solid waste” based on the potential temperatures they can achieve, Jeremy O’Brien, SWANA’s director of applied research, told, however, is not based on emissions testing or even continuous temperature monitoring at U.S. incinerators.
EPA has no field testing underway to determine what kinds or levels of PFAS may be emitted through municipal waste incineration, and “no timeline for testing,” but a spokesperson wrote that characterizing these emissions “remains an EPA priority.” Meanwhile, Europe has begun assessing potential public health and environmental risks from PFAS exposure linked to waste incineration.Testing incinerator emissions is complicated by the daunting number of PFAS compounds,.
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