Welcome back to the Women in PFAS podcast, the show where we highlight the experts, innovators, and leaders who are shaping the future of water and environmental resilience.
Join host Amanda Berger as we dive into a topic that sits at the intersection of waste water and public health, PFAS, and landfill leachate. If you've been following the national conversation, you know that PFAS don't stay put. Every product we throw away has the potential to leach these, what we call forever chemicals into the liquid that forms at the bottom of landfills. And that leachate ultimately finds its way to wastewater treatment plants, or other disposal locations that were never designed for PFAS.
Today we the science, the challenges, and the solutions: what's really in landfill leachate, and how are utilities and solid waste facilities adapting?
We're joined by Dr. Johnsie Lang, leading real work, the laboratory, and on the ground, someone who brings deep technical insight and a practical operations driven perspective to one of the toughest environmental issues of our time.