Reimagining the cleaning process

Rather than desperately dispersing the flow of oil and chemical contaminants via artificial means, it should instead be possible to use biological agents and green technology to neutralize the threat they pose.

This was the thought which motivated Janet Angel, an environmental scientist who has worked to redefine and reimagine the process of cleaning up contaminants. Incidents like the ongoing one at Camp Market in Incheon, and the shocking statistics published by the NOAA, have underlined the scale of the problem we face, and have made it clear that contemporary best practices and recommended responses are simply insufficient.

Janet Angel’s EcoBioClean represents a potential solution and is designed as a green and sustainable means to combat environmental contamination. Using biological compounds which reverse engineer the toxic chemical contaminants, EcoBioClean has been shown during testing to render such chemicals harmless, or even beneficial to local ecosystems.

Field testing for the innovative green technology began in 2010 in the most tragic circumstances possible. In July of that year, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig suffered an uncontrollable blowout of crude oil, resulting in a catastrophic explosion and the release of 4.9 million barrels’ worth of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The treatment quickly proved successful, and the oil which EcoBioClean came into contact with, as well as the dispersal agent deployed by BT (Core Exit), was remediated and rendered harmless.

Further field tests took place the following month after the rupture of the Enbridge Pipeline in Michigan. Visible oil slicks witnessed on the surface of the Kalamazoo River were neutralized and dispersed by EcoBioClean, and evidence of its efficacy was recorded. Following this field test, the Covance Laboratory performed blind tests on the treated water, all of which indicated that EcoBioClean had been successful in removing the threat of contamination.