Bioremediation

As a primer, please read our article on the dangers of dispersants and the overview on Bioremediation, with case examples. The summary about Bioremediation may simply be: this is not a silver bullet, but it IS helpful. And helpful in a nontoxic way is something we’ll take any day.

• Interesting article about oil-eating microbes and how it could work.
• Older article from Scientific American on oil-eating microbes.
• Here is a news story and video of the Aabaco product in action.
• Another look at microbes and their usefulness to clean up the coast.

The interesting theme within these articles is that you need fertilizer for the microbes, as well as the microbes.  Too much fertilizer can cause a myriad of other problems, however. The unique thing about a bioremediation product like Aabaco’s is that it uses sugar cane fibers to absorb the oil. The fibers are infused with microbes that eat the fibers so separate fertilizers are not necessary. The sugar can fibers ARE the fertilizer and they all go down together.