Scientists Find Two New Ways To Break Down "Forever Chemicals" in Water

Researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf have demonstrated two methods—hydrodynamic cavitation and cold atmospheric plasma—that successfully degrade PFAS ('forever chemicals') in water and release fluoride, with hydrodynamic cavitation degrading approximately 37% of PFOS in testing.

These are early laboratory demonstrations; scaling to practical industrial systems for wastewater treatment would require further development and testing.