Weeks of digging up soil at Dublin Airport, stockpiling it in designated zones and loading it onto dozens of lorries to take the material to Dublin Port for export to specialist facilities in mainland Europe.  The three-month project in the summer of 2023 may seem like overkill to remove soil from the construction site for a new aircraft parking apron, but this was a very necessary exercise executed by the Dublin Airport Authority (Daa). Site and lab testing revealed that soil in the area was contaminated with PFAS, more commonly described as forever chemicals linked to cancer that don’t break…

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