BDN features UMaine engineering professor in article about PFAS
In an article about “forever chemicals” at the Old Town Landfill, the Bangor Daily News interviewed Jean MacRae, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Maine. MacRae told the BDN, “The issues with landfills are big because they’re really the only way to deal with PFAS contamination once it happens. Water can be treated to get PFAS out of the water by passing it through an activated carbon charcoal filter. And if you do that, you’ll stick the PFAS to the charcoal, but then you have contaminated charcoal.”