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Billions of tiny bugs have green jobs cleaning up polluted sites

Posted by: Maven on March 17, 2010 at 7:32 am

bugsFrom Clean Technica:

“Talk about green jobs! The California company Microvi Biotech has developed a low cost, low impact, energy efficient system that puts billions of microorganisms to work, cleaning up notorious soil and groundwater pollutants like perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive that is also used to make explosives, matches and flares among many (many, many) other products.

Perchlorate contamination is widespread and it is an especially thorny problem for the defense industry and U.S. military installations, which use about 90% of all domestically produced perchlorate. To make matters worse, perchlorate is highly mobile once it gets into groundwater, which means that cleanup can be extremely difficult and expensive. That’s where those bugs come in… “

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March 17, 2010 · Filed Under Uncategorized

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