EcoBasalt

Oil Spills

Cleaning up spilled oil is as old as mankind. Natural products – such as sand, leaves, clay and hair – have been in use forever.

Synthetic Slow Absorption

Since the 1980’s, synthetic, oil-based sorbents have taken over the market, though absorption rates remain low and slow.

Synthetic sorbents are in fact as toxic as the oil they remove. Using synthetic sorbents moves pollution from one contaminated site to befoul another.

Global Problem

On a global scale between 180,000 and 240,000 oil spills, or about 40 to 100 million liters, occur annually.