Cleaning up oil spills
- Created by: hannah kingham
- Created on: 25-11-15 14:04
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- Cleaning up oil spills
- Inflatable booms can be used in sheltered waters to limit the spread of oil slicks
- Scrapers remove and collect oil
- absorbent materials can be spread on the oil e.g. straw
- oil will stick to them and be disposed on land
- polymerising chemicals can be spread. this is turn the oil into a rubber like material so it can be collected easily
- chemical dispersants can be used to break up oil slicks
- these are often toxic themselves.
- Beaches can be cleaned using hot water or stream
- could kill organisms under surface
- bioremediation involves the use of bacteria that digest oil
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