Toilet paper moves out from a cutting machine at the Tissue Plus factory, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Bangor, Maine. The new company has been unexpectedly busy because of the shortage of toilet paper brought on by hoarders concerned about the coronavirus. Robert F. Bukaty/AP Photo
The growing research into PFAs contamination finds sources in everyday consumer goods like toilet paper and traces PFAs into Green Bay and the Great Lakes. We talk to the director of the Water Science and Engineering Laboratory at UW-Madison about where we're finding PFAs in Wisconsin's waters. Paper Tissue Making Machine
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