Oil Spill Remediation: It's not just for supertanker spills anymore...

$19.95 • www.oilgoneeasy.com

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Industrial Biotech Comes Home

Oil and fuel spill cleaning is probably something every car, truck, and boat operator should do as regularly as filling up, but don't. But let's face it, it happens all the time in a million little ways people just ignore or walk away from. That's a lot of unrepaired spills into the waterway or driveway that add up to more oil in the water cycle.

Cleaning an oil or fuel spill tends to create more problems than the original mess. Soap and solvents spread hydrocarbon-based spills around further than the original spill, and can damage surfaces. Things that absorb the spill, like rags and sand, themselves become a hazmat to be disposed of carefully.

On land, it's possible to actually create more damage to the garage or driveway (and still not fix the problem). Paying people to do it over a larger area is expensive. At sea, it means dry-docking your stinky bilge because the potent stew of oil, bacteria and mold growing is very toxic and illegal to dump into open water. At the end of the day, you've weakened your vehicle with powerful solvents or further poisoned yourself or the environment by your earnest effort to be responsible.

Oil Gone Easy, an industrial answer to oil spills such as the Exxon Valdez and the Prestige oil spill in Spain, has now entered easy reach of engine operators everywhere. It is green, hassle-free, and non-toxic, and simple to apply. And it literally makes the most common oil and fuel spills disappear.

It works by recruiting the power of micro-organisms local to the spill that break down hydrocarbons into oil and water. These bacteria live practically everywhere, and they literally eat hydrocarbons like oil and fuel and give carbon dioxide and water as a byproduct.

Oil Gone Easy says both versions (one if by land, one if by sea) contain the spill in a waxy gel that attracts harmless bacteria which break down the oil or fuel. From two to six weeks, depending on conditions, the product contains the spill and attracts these microorganisms to the spill site. They then arrive, eat the spill, and disappear.

The water version is especially cool: It binds only to hydrocarbons, so you may apply it to open water after oil has spilled. It bonds to the oil or fuel, captures it, floats it to the surface, and in the sun attracts micro organisms to do their work.

Sounds like the easiest answer to the hardest problem. Application is inexpensive compared to the amount of time and mess cleaning the spills make. It's also simple: 1. Control the spill. 2. Pick up as much as you can. 3. Apply the product on a 1:1 ratio to the rest of it by hand or by any sprayer that uses water, and you're done.