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Approvals
& Licenses
United States
Environmental Protection Agency
Certification of Rubberizer® as
a sorbent.
"...EPA believes that the use of sorbents, by
themselves, will not create deleterious effects on the
environment because sorbent materials are essentially inert and
insoluble in water and because the basic components of sorbents
are non-toxic..." View Letter
State of
California, Department of Fish & Game, Office of Spill
Prevention & Response
Licensed for Oil Spill Cleanup Agent, 7-98
View License
U.S. Department of
Labor
Materials Safety Data Sheet, filed 3-94
No chemicals present in products at a concentration of 0.1% or
more classified as a carcinogenic by IARC, NTP or OSHA
View MSDS
USPCI, A
Subsidiary of Union Pacific Corp.
"...Rubberizer® appears
to effectively solidify organic liquids and appears to satisfy
state and federal regulations prohibiting landfill of free
liquids..."
Ogden Projects, Inc.
"Rubberizer® appears
to effectively solidify certain spill materials and appears to
qualify as a non-hazardous solid waste according to state and
federal regulation, and may therefore be used as a fuel at
energy recovery facilities operated by Ogden, such as H-Power in
Hawaii or the plant in Stanislaus County California."
Marine Pollution
Control
"MPC has utilized this product in more than half a dozen
water-borne releases to great effect. Rubberizer®
is extremely effective at absorbing and
mitigating sheen from light-end hydrocarbon contamination."
Foss Environmental
Services
Foss Environmental Services has had a number of spills in
which we have deployed the Rubberizer®
product and achieved great success.
We have found that toward the end of a spill that Rubberizer® is
the only product that is effective in the removal of light ends
or sheen. Our customers have been very pleased with the
results of the Rubberizer® product
because it removed the final product and reduced the overall
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Rubberizer®
Operations
& Approvals
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Operations
Ship Spill,
Kodiak, Alaska
A ship in Kodiak, Alaska, spilled approximately 150 gallons
of lube oil. This waterborne spill was contained with Rubberizer® booms
(3.25" diameter by 20' lengths lapped and lashed
together. Rubberizer® pillows
were tossed into the spill containment area. Polypropylene
pads were used until daylight ceased. The Rubberizer® booms
and pillows remained deployed and continued to sorb and solidify
the remaining lube oil until the following morning, at which
time the Rubberizer® booms
and pillows, swollen with solidified lube oil, were
removed. It was reported that all the lube oil has been
sorbed and solidified, with no remaining sheen.
Ship Spill, San
Diego, California
A ship in San Diego Bay spilled approximately 800 gallons of
propellant (diesel) into a containment area around the ship. Rubberizer® booms
were used to span gaps in the existing containment boom.
Additional booms (5" diameter by 10' long) were thrown into
the spill area. While some of this spill had already been
retrieved with vac-trucks, the remainder was pushed into the Rubberizer® booms
using spray from fire hoses. A short time afterwards the
booms, swollen with solidified diesel were retrieved.
Highway
Maintenance Department
Responding to a highway spill of approximately 30 gallons of
diesel fuel, on a rainy day, department employees deployed two
2.25" diameter by 20' long Rubberizer®
boom. These booms were placed on the
spill side of the fire department burm containing both diesel
and significant quantities of water. Rubberizer®
particulate was spread onto the diesel
floating behind the burm also. The sorbed and solidified
diesel was retrieved and filled less than one 55 gallon drum.
Highway
Maintenance Department
Rubberizer® pillows
are being used in sumps in an on-going process to remove
hydrocarbon containment, thereby allowing discharge of sump
water without trucking from treatment.
Wastewater Treatment Plant Near
Marseilles, France
Approximately 700 liters of diesel fuel that entered the
microbiological waste water treatment ponds were treated with
approximately 250 lbs of Rubberizer®
particulate and one Rubberizer®
boom. The contamination level of 1790 PPM
hydrocarbons was high enough to, under normal circumstances,
cause the cessation of discharging treated wastewater for a
period of a month or more. With the addition of Rubberizer® particulate
to the foaming aeration ponds, however, the PPM hydrocarbon
contamination was rapidly reduced thereby facilitating a
reduction in foaming, normalization of microbiological activity
and the re-opening of discharge outlets in less than 21
hours.
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