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Fluorine mass balance exposes intrinsic PFAS and precursor content in geosynthetics used in landfill systems
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11 May 2026 | Environ. Pollut.
Geosynthetic landfill materials contain PFAS including ultra-short-chain compounds such as PFPrA and TFA, along with PFBS and fluorotelomer-related species, while over 80% of fluorinated content remains unidentified, indicating these materials may act as overlooked long-term PFAS sources and that conventional monitoring substantially underestimates total PFAS inventories.
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Erin Brockovich warns PFAS problem spreading beyond Georgia town at meeting
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1 Apr 2026 | The National News Des
“It’s going to be the entire state of Georgia,” Brockovich said. “It’s in the landfills, it’s in the rivers, it’s in the creeks, it’s in the tributaries, it’s in the soil, it’s in the farmland. It’s in the food chain.”
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A Nantucket Company wanted to ship yard waste to the mainland. The island's PFAS reputation thwarted its plan
Policy
20 Mar 2026
A striking example of how a Hampshire island’s reputation for contaminated dirt and water has spread is hampering at least one local company’s business efforts.
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Legislation takes aim at waste from Vermont’s only landfill
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4 Mar 2026 | VTDigger
The bill seeks to protect Lake Memphremagog by banning the disposal of leachate – liquid that runs through the waste and collects in the landfill’s liner system – into the watershed.
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Open dumps as a critical source of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances in agricultural soils of Pakistan: Evidence of trifluoroacetic acid dominance
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14 Feb 2026 | Environ Pollut
Open dumps may function as long-term reservoirs of PFAS in nearby agricultural soils, with short-chain compounds such as trifluoroacetic acid dominating contamination and urban areas showing higher burdens.
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PFAS in commercially available organic amendments and food-contact paper products
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1 Feb 2026 | Sci Total Environ
PFHxA and other short-chain PFCAs are dominant in composts and food-contact paper products, with PFOS dominant in biosolid-derived fertilizers, suggesting different waste sources may introduce distinct PFAS mixtures into soils used for gardening and agriculture.
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New York DEC to host virtual meeting series on PFAS
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23 Jan 2026 | Waste Today
The webinar series, which runs Jan. 27 through Feb. 11, 2026, will focus on the DEC’s PFAS Rural Background study, treatment of landfill leachate, wastewater treatment guidance, sampling of PFAS in biosolids and drinking water policy.
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A Componential Evaluation of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Streams
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30 Dec 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
PFAS were detected in every major waste component, with PFAS-treated textiles, which make up only about 9 percent of the waste stream, contributed roughly 38 percent of all leachable PFAS, identifying them as a dominant source of PFAS release from municipal solid waste from waste collected from Central Florida.
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Evaluation of fluorochemical leaching from lithium-ion batteries under simulated solid waste landfill conditions
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3 Dec 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Lithium-ion batteries may release multiple fluorochemicals, including PFAS such as 2,4-difluorobenzoic acid and several fluorinated electrolyte additives, under simulated landfill conditions, suggesting that end-of-life battery disposal may introduce additional PFAS sources into landfill leachate.
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Maine was first to ban spreading PFAS-contaminated sludge on farmland. Now sludge is filling up landfills.
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28 Nov 2025 | Sentient Health
“When we think about policy change around PFAS in commercial products and our waste stream, we tend to focus on economic impacts,” said Adam Nordell, a farmer who had to close his operations a few years ago over high PFAS contamination and who now advocates about farmland contamination risks. “But at the end of the day, it’s a story about human health.”
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Nationwide estimate of volatile per-and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) emissions from US landfills via landfill gas
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17 Nov 2025 | Environ. Sci. Technol.
Landfill gas was found to contain notable levels of volatile PFAS, particularly 6:2 and 8:2 FTOH, suggesting that landfills may act as an underrecognized source of atmospheric PFAS emissions and raising policy concerns due to major uncertainties in how effectively these compounds are managed.
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Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) profiles in primary and secondary landfill leachates: Indications of transformation, liner interactions, and other PFAS sources
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24 May 2025 | J Hazard Mater
Tests at three modern, double‑lined Florida landfills showed that the supposedly isolated liquid beneath the main liner still contained thousands to tens of thousands of nanograms‑per‑litre of assorted PFAS, often rivaling or exceeding levels in the primary leachate, revealing that “forever chemicals” can slip through liners, transform, and build up despite today’s best landfill safeguards.
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National Assessment of PFAS in Landfill Leachate in China: Non-Negligible Ultrashort-Chain Components and Socioeconomic Impacts
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20 May 2025 | Environ Sci Technol
A nationwide survey of 70 Chinese landfills found that their wastewater holds sizable amounts of PFAS, mostly newer ultrashort‑chain chemicals, releasing about 419 kg into the environment each year and underscoring the need for stricter waste controls.
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A comprehensive analytical approach to monitoring selected emerging contaminant classes in sewage sludge and e-waste from Norway
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19 May 2025 | J. Environ. Chem. Ecotoxicol.
Norwegian researchers found that anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge converts PFAS precursors into highly mobile perfluorocarboxylic acids and leaves more persistent long‑chain PFAS, while discarded e‑waste plastics, although less contaminated, still harbor up to 176 ng g⁻¹ of PFAS, indicating that both sludge treatment and electronics recycling inadvertently leak these pollutants.
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Evaluating the hypothesis of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) presence in HDPE geomembranes
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22 Apr 2025 | J. Hazard. Mater. Adv.
Ultra-short-chain PFAS (specifically PFPrA) were detected in all tested HDPE geomembranes used for waste containment—potentially leading to elevated PFAS concentrations in landfill leachate.