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Exactly. The market is not asking for PFAS containers, the market is asking for containers with the price and quality aspects of these containers.

Market pressure to produce an asbestos functional equivalent has led nowhere (at a similar cost), after several decades.

Since the outcome is unknown until after a huge amount of time and expense, how would you factor it in beforehand?

Does 'similar cost' include all the down-stream healthcare and lost productive life years cost?

No, because that also cannot be known until after all the downstream effects happen in fact and people in the future tally up the costs.

So in either case it makes no sense to try to factor in ‘market pressure’ beforehand.

or why not ban in 18 months, like they do in the eu, give companies time to retool