Replacement ‘climate-friendly’ car refrigerant linked to rising forever chemical pollution in Europe

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/july/replacement-climate-friendly-car-.html

A newer ‘climate-friendly’ refrigerant used in car air conditioning systems, may already be a significant, and possibly dominant, source of a ‘forever chemical’ pollutant across Europe, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.

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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 20d

I'm sure glad DuPont lobbied so hard for this $1200/kg formulation that has the potential to form HF acid in a fire to be the go to replacement, and not co2 or hc based refrigerant mixes that cost cents to refill.