People always have an aversion to talking about waste disposal or the sewage system. The common knowledge is that all kinds of waste go to it, but what people miss out on is the fact that sewage and wastewater systems entail intricate processes that ensure a good quality of living in an area.
These are actually some of the most important factors that make a city or any place run. Without these systems running properly, organic wastes produced by all sectors of a municipality would literally burst out of the pipes. Imagine the horror of people drenched in muck if this happens right in the middle of a busy street.
To keep up with the flow of a smooth sewage and wastewater system, homes, institutions and establishments make sure that their own waste management is maintained well. Before anything ends up in a sewage system, wastes go through filters and when left unattended, tank walls and pipes start to get buildups, lessening the system’s ability to handle ore waste. This can lead to system inefficiency and back-ups.
Millions of dollars are spent each year to make sure that the sewage system works, and the costs start in pump-ups, the first phase of sewage maintenance. Pump-ups can be costly, which is why most establishments only make this happen once a year, twice at the most. This can be alarming, especially if an establishment produces tremendous amounts of waste. Luckily, a cost-effective solution can be done through bioremediation.
What is bioremediation?
Bioremediation is the use of microbes or organisms to clean up contaminated soil and groundwater. Microbes are microscopic organisms that live naturally in the environment. The process stimulates growth of microbes that use other pollutants as food and energy. Examples of pollutants would be oil, petroleum products, pesticides and solvents.
Bioremediation works when microbes eat and digest these contaminants and changes them into small amounts of water or carbon dioxide. For bioremediation to work, there should be proper conditions that allow the microbes to grow and multiply so they can eat more contaminants. The temperature should be right, or else microbes will grow slowly and die.
As for safety issues, microbes live naturally in soil and groundwater and pose no threat to people or to the community. Also, microbes that are added to any kind of system die out once the contamination is gone. The chemicals that make bioremediation possible are also safe. Bioremediation happens underground or within the systems, which prevents cleaning up to cause disruption. It reduces traffic and delays compared to other forms of clean up methods, such as pump ups.
Bioremediation in tablet form
One of the advantages of bioremediation is the environmentally friendly process of using natural organisms to clean up our mess. It does not require as much equipment, labor, or energy compared to other methods, ultimately making it cheaper. There is no need to dig, pump, and transport wastes to another site for treatment — microbes will do all the work. This method creates no waste byproducts and it has successfully cleaned up many polluted sites across the United States.
Because of the huge advantages bioremediation brings, there is currently a huge demand for services and practices that promote this practice, and some do not require work at all. EcoSciences (OTCQB: ECEZ), a company based in New York, has developed a set of tablets that gives the effect of bioremediation where it can create environment that prevents anaerobic degradation and the creation of hydrogen sulfide in wastewater and sewage systems.
When used regularly, the tablets oxygenate the wastewater where billions of bacteria spores can grow to breakdown waste. Providing the ideal environment for microbes to thrive into, the tablets have aerobic bacteria that kill organic pollutants and transform them into carbon dioxide and water. From grease traps to large-scale treatment facilities, these tablets clean pollutants without the use of expensive equipment or hazardous chemicals.
The tablets are classified into three usages: Tank-EZE wastewater tablets for pump and lift stations, and septic tank and wastewater systems, Trap-EZE for the food industry’s waste system, and Wash-EZE for car washing systems. Using these tablets will not only lead to money being saved, but it will also promote a “greener” way of handling the waste management system.
