Tap water quality really varies throughout the US. Miami Beach for example has 30x the national average for levels of PFOS in the tap water.

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/system.php?pws=FL4130901

Being worth 5/10 cents? Of course. It seems the point is that if they were worth more (~$1) people would be sure to keep them to recycle

Interestingly enough, donating blood is a remedy for reducing human made pollutants in our bodies.

https://www.aabb.org/news-resources/news/article/2022/04/26/...

Just wait until you find out that PFAS is already being spread on crops from the common practice of using sewage "sludge" as a fertilizer.

https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/2022/04/ewg-forever-c...