Although global warming casts a pall of gloom over most discussions of the topic, Canada-based Bio-Circle demonstrates how innovation can help, at least in industrial cleaning. Sister companies which spawned the Bio-Circle process several years ago, know most manufacturing, processing, or maintenance regularly requires clean tools and parts. And their scientists also know that the bioremediation process has been instrumental in helping microscopically, to “gobble up” huge, impossibly messy oil spills. Think Exxon disaster, Alaskan coast, Spring, 1989.
Bio-Circle researchers discovered a means of harnessing the microscopic life forms that can literally “digest” contaminants and convert them to simple, clean, H2O with negligible traces of CO2. According to Bio-Circle president Berny Amiel, industry estimates suggest there are more than 50,000 parts washers operating across our country each day. And, over 95 per cent of the workers in these operations use acrid smelling, skin irritating, toxic solvents in their cleaning operations. A quarter million workers use toxic solvents every day. And the environmental damage spreads much further.
Industry estimates suggest that the toxic effluent released can amount to approximately 35,000 tons of used solvent hauled out annually with approximately 4,000 tons of VOCs (volatile organic compounds) evaporating into the atmosphere. So, when it comes to cleaning dirty, greasy tools and parts, the good news is the Bio-Remediation microscopic process perfected by Bio-Circle drops the dangerous effluent numbers to virtually zero.
The upshot of all this is that Bio-Circle now has a growing client base across Canada, the US, South America and Europe and is also expanding into Asia. Most of these ardent customers proudly testify they are doing their part to help the environment while improving the workplace for their employees. Bio-Circle is a wholly-owned division of Montreal-based Walter Surface Technologies, a privately held Canadian company which has been servicing the metal fabricating and related industries in the Americas and Europe for over fifty years.
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