Your Filter Just Moves PFAS Around. This Reactor Destroys It. | Alec Ajnsztajn

Between 97 and 99 percent of all humans have measurable levels of PFAS in their blood. Every major watershed on Earth has tested positive, including the Arctic and Antarctica. Every technology designed to address it has, until now, just moved the problem somewhere else. Alec Ajnsztajn is the co-founder and CEO of CoFlux Purification, a Houston-based startup commercializing a covalent organic framework reactor that captures PFAS and then destroys the carbon-fluoride bonds under UV light, converting the molecules into fluoride and CO2. No concentrated waste, no hazmat landfill, no incineration truck. The contamination is gone. 0:00 Welcome: Liquid Assets, and meet Alec Ajnsztajn 0:53 97 to 99 percent of humans carry PFAS 6:46 Risk assessment for new chemicals 8:12 Why you should test your own water 13:16 How CoFlux uses light to destroy PFAS 14:38 Alec's obsession with infrastructure 15:35 Houston's ballot initiative on air and water 22:14 Utilities eyeing wastewater, not just drinking water 23:01 The climate angle on PFAS treatment 24:28 Regulatory barriers for new treatment materials 30:23 Where CoFlux is today: pilots and plans 35:22 Streamlining PFAS waste disposal policy 37:51 When and where CoFlux gets deployed 42:24 The rate-payer problem at utilities 43:48 Scale: not in every plant yet 49:01 Point-of-use treatment and its limits 53:47 Book rec: The Power Broker by Robert Caro 55:15 Wrap-up: where to find CoFlux Alec Ajnsztajn on LinkedIn:   / alec-ajnsztajn-ph-d-a6667564   CoFlux Purification: https://cofluxpurification.com Book recommendation: The Power Broker by Robert Caro https://www.amazon.com/dp/0394720245?... Subscribe and listen everywhere: Website: https://www.liquidassets.cc/ #PFAS #WaterTreatment #LiquidAssets