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Oil Spills Cleanup: Then and Now

Meet the Planet is an environmental multimedia platform, which aims at increasing the level of awareness among people about some of the pressing issues that our environment is facing today. Jim Lynn, the inventor of Oil Gone Easy S-200 products, one of the most environmentally-safe oil spill cleaners appeared as a guest on.

On this show, Jim Lynn reveals some alarming facts regarding oil spills. He states that, every year 20 million gallons of oil escapes into North American waters of which only 15% oil spills are from pipeline tanker and the remaining are caused by oil runoff from vehicles on land, fuel dumping by commercial pilots, and contamination by recreational boaters. Pollution of drinking water and waterways, death of marine wildlife, and tar balls coming up on the shore are some of the detrimental effects.

Jim Lynn also gives an insight on different oil spill cleanup methods used and explain how they’re more harmful to the environment than the oil spill itself. He lists out the disadvantages of using toxic oil spill cleaners and dispersants. He explains that the toxic oil spill cleaners and other dispersants don’t get rid of oil completely, they just hide the oil. For instance, dispersants; they give the appearance of having cleaned the oil spill outwardly, but the fact is that oil is dispersed deep into the water column. Fish and marine wildlife feed on them and get infected.

He explains that other standard oil spill cleanup methods like high-pressure washing and hot water are also equally harmful. These oil spill cleanup techniques drive oil into the ground, which later surfaces. According to him, the only method that eliminates oil pollution and brings the contaminated site back to the original state is bioremediation. Oil Gone Easy S-200 makes use of this technology, which not only cleans off oil stains in an eco-friendly way, but also cleans them effectively.