24 May 2024 --- Civil society groups in the US are launching a lawsuit against the country’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing its duty to prevent the production of hundreds of millions of plastic packaging pieces containing dangerous levels of PFAS. The case centers on Texas-based Inhance Technologies, a company using a novel fluorination process which blasts plastic containers with fluorine gas in an oxygen-free chamber. This method creates barrier properties for high-density PE (HDPE), which the company says “prevents permeation of contents through the packaging to the environment and preserves the quality of the product in the packaging.”
