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BCx BioComplex Bioremediation
Microbe Facts:
Microbes can eliminate or neutralize many toxic compounds in the environment. Bioremediation is the most economical and most efficient way to reduce toxic waste.
Natural bioremediation often happens very, very slowly. This is why we need EKO GEA (speeds + feeds + cleans + shelters microbes)
Problems can arise if the chosen microbes for a particular job aren't well suited to life in their new environment
Some microbes are very good at degrading certain toxins. If microbes that degrade oil, for example, are not present in an environment where oil has been spilled, EKO GEA can add oil-degrading microbes to that environment. Our microbes are grown in our lab and encapsulated for later use.
Many compounds can be degraded by microbes, including the following:
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Organic weed killers (herbicide)
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Oil and hydrocarbons
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PCB's polychlorinated biphenyls (insulator-coolants in electric power plant transformers) DDT 1,1,1-trichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl) ethane - an organic insect killer (pesticide)
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Toxaphene
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Plastic
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Detergents
Certain microbes can transform the following compounds into other non-toxic or less toxic forms. These include heavy metals such as selenium, arsenic, mercury and uranium; fertilizers, including nitrate and phosphate; and runoff from mining operations. The following inorganic toxic compounds have microbes that can transform them in some way:
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Mercury in batteries
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Nitrite - fertilizer runoff
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Selenium
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Arsenic
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Uranium
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Acid mine drainage
Adding microbes to solve challenging bioremediation problems is not a sure thing. EKO GEA leap-frogs this challenge by bio activating – feeding, protecting, sheltering a FULL RANGE of microbes for the applications to which they are already suited, acclimatized, and in-situ. EKO GEA can also enhance the performance of microbes added to environments for specific tasks.