Microbes are Mother Nature’s form of bio-remediation, this “green or environmentally friendly” technology takes naturally occurring microbes and breeds them on a diet of crude oil to create a hardy microbe that readily digests oil into non-hazardous components. Microbes have been used to clean up major oil spills such as the Valdez and Mega Borg spills. They are listed on the National Contingency List of the EPA for oil spill response incidents. Microbes have been tested extensively and found to be harmless to plant and animal life and safe for the environment. This is a natural, but highly effective means, to turn a disaster such as an oil spill into a short-term cleanup. These microbes can be used to remediate oil that is spread through convection storms like hurricanes and water spouts that bring the crude oil inland, contaminating fresh water lakes, ponds, farm land and gardens, etc. Microbes can be added to 55-gallon drums of water and then be sprayed onto contaminated surface of water or land to immediately start remediating oil. The microbes digest the oil as a food source and break it down into carbon, CO2 and a lipids that is basically a fatty fish and plant food, so the oil becomes non-hazardous substance. It is important to spray the microbes into the surf and shoreline prior to the significant part of the oil slick coming ashore to allow the microbes to colonize. Once the oil comes ashore, another dousing of microbes is required to provide the most effective opportunity for bioremediation success. Microbes can also be sprinkled onto pads to remove oil, plus this leaves the microbes on the animal or rock that has been washed to further remediate and remove residual oil. Microbes ship in 25 pound bags, stacked on pallets out of Houston, TX. There are approximately 5 billion microbes per gram of material. |