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Dana Vazquez from Coflux Purification

Dana Vazquez from Coflux Purification25 aug48 min

One drop of PFAS can contaminate an Olympic sized swimming pool, and 90 percent of us are carrying it in our blood. Dana Vazquez, cofounder and Chief Commercial Officer at Coflux Purification, explains why the current industrial fix is basically a giant Brita filter headed for a landfill, and how her team built a material that captures forever chemicals and destroys them in one step. Plus the liability bill coming for companies that wait, and what it takes to get a first skid into the field.

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00:00 Intro

01:14 Meet Dana Vazquez

02:04 What PFAS is and why it never leaves

06:23 From consulting to co-founding

09:12 How the technology works

13:44 Scaling up and staying modular