Signal The EU adopted binding PFAS limits in drinking water in 2020, with the US, Japan and Australia following

Summary

The report credits regulation with pushing PFAS destruction from laboratory demonstrations toward real deployment. In 2020 the European Union adopted legally binding limits on PFAS in drinking water. Regulators in the United States, Japan and Australia have since moved in a similar direction. These rules create a growing, legally mandated incentive to destroy PFAS rather than simply contain them. The report says that incentive is now beginning to show results in operating facilities. The outlook adds that regulation would further need to require proof of destruction, backed by harmonized verification standards, for local treatment to take hold.