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by Citizen8396 653 days ago
PFAS have exceptional properties that make them difficult to degrade, especially when it has been ingested. As a result, exposure to them will lead to bioaccumulation. Wastewater is treated to remove things like metformin, and anything that eludes that can be metabolized normally.
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WWTPs have not proven successful at removing metformin or its metabolite.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221334372...

Granted, this particular chemical partitions into water, not the solids, so it isn't the best example here.