“There is nothing green about the polypropylene pads that have been used historically for cleaning up oil releases. They are made from virgin materials, are used once or twice, and then generally disposed of in a landfill.” This statement was not made by us but from a very reliable resource.

We manufacture a Product Line for the removal of oils, oil sheen, oil-borne contaminants. The Spillpro is truly an amazing product, designed for picking up for recycling most fluids like oil hyd fluid and many others. We believe that completely eliminating oil waste is not only possible, but quite econimical.

Our web site has a good bit of information at: GreatGreenSolutions.com. If you would like to see a brief demo of the technology please “Watch the Demo Video” on the right hand side of our home page. If you will take the time to look over our site you will find many articles about how to take your oil spills and turn them into dollar savings for you and your business.

The technology exists for us to be able to reuse oil and other fluids that at one time were just hazardous waste. Then any film that is left can be bio-re-mediated and unbelievably turned into water. The time is here to stop wasting oil and other products that are derived from crude oil. This will save you money and most importantly allowing us to be able to reuse and recycle, rather than waste one of our most valuable resources.

Please take the time to look at the resources we and others have available to you.

Use absorbents wisely

Pigs, pads, pillows, and mats

• Keep these absorbent devices on-hand to prevent very large oil spills from spreading.
• After use, wring out the absorbed fluid into the proper drum for recycling or disposal, and reuse of the absorbents.
• Spent absorbent devices must be disposed of properly. This involves determining whether the spent absorbent is a hazardous waste. Floor sweep (grease sweep, “kitty litter,” absorbent pads, rice hull, etc.)
“These are expensive and very time consuming” -$-$-$ These absorbents should be used only when the spill can not be cleaned with proper equipment. The Spillpro pneumatic tool, which is a fluid cleanup and recovery machine is the best we have found. Shop, rags or dedicated mops with oil remediation products like Bio-Rem 2000 can also be used.
• Restrict the use of these absorbents to cleaning up gasoline,diesel, solvents, oil spills or other hazardous waste chemical spills.
• Use floor sweep until it no longer absorbs fluids. Recycle used floor sweep if possible, or dispose as hazardous waste. Floor sweep can be processed to reclaim and recycle absorbed compounds. Ask your vendor about recycling opportunities for spent floor sweep.

Keeping your shop clean and safe

When used together, the following practices and equipment significantly reduce the amount of water needed to clean shop floors. Minimizing waste water generation will reduce environmental liability and help your shop stay ahead of tightening regulations.

Prevent oil spills from ever reaching the floor.
• Stop if there’’s a drop! Never walk away from an oil spill. If oil spills are not cleaned up immediately: Workers can slip and fall. Oil, antifreeze, and other spilled material can mix and be tracked around your shop and into vehicles. You will spend more time and money washing the floor.
• Mechanics should carry rags so that small spills can be wiped dry when they occur.

In case a medium-sized or larger oil spill or other type spill occurs, cleanup equipment should be well marked. For example, attach red flags to Spill recovery equipment, such as pneumatic tools specific for cleanup and containment of spills, mop buckets with remediation products used for spill cleanup so they can be easily located by workers. Keep all spills out of sewer drains.
• Sweep your floor with a broom every day to prevent unnecessary dirt and contaminant buildup.
• Never hose down your work area! This practice generates large quantities of contaminated wash water that is discharged to a sewer, or worse, is flushed out of the shop to a storm drain.
• If you use a pressure washer to clean your floors, be sure to use a remediation product before you wash. Even if pressure washing is performed by a contractor, your shop is responsible for proper management of the wash water and can be held liable for its illegal disposal. The best way to avoid this liability and the costs associated with pressure washing is to clean up oil spills when and where they occur. A pneumatic vacuum helps to complete this task along with a microbe product to eliminate the small amount remaining. The oil one can recover with the vacuum can then be recycled.

Good housekeeping reduces oil spills and protects you against liability.

Here are several suggestions for limiting waste oil problems in your shop.

Place drip pans under cars.

Use different pans for waste oil and for parts covered with solvents.

Fill drip pans only half-way and then use a funnel to pour the oil into a drum or tank

- $$$ Use dry cleanup methods when you do have oil spills. You can use (I) reusable absorbent pads, ( 2) a bristle broom and brush (3) mops that absorb only oily liquids. Wring out or pour the waste oil you clean up into a container or tank. Clean any left over waste oil. Discard the cleanup debris in a separate container
from the waste oil. Use clay absorbents or sawdust, or alternatives such as corn cobs or peat.

$ Build curbs around your waste oil storage area to contain 110% of the volume of the largest waste oil
container or tank.

$$$$$ All of these are good ideas. However, the best method to save time, hassle and money is to use a pneumatic tool, such as the Spillpro, to pick up your oil spills. The Spillpro, with a special attachment, can filter and help you recycle all of your used oil.

The majority of human-induced oil pollution occurs on dry land, although maritime spills gain most of the notoriety. For instance, many people are familiar with the Exxon Valdez crude oil spill of 1989. This occurred when an oil tanker made contact with a coral reef in the Gulf of Alaska and unloaded about 11 million gallons of oil into the water. The environmental effects of the oil spill were disastrous, and many species of wildlife were adversely affected.

Despite the overwhelmingly negative impact of this disaster, it at least brought public awareness to the dangers inherent to petrol spills. Back on land, many large industrial operations have created contingency plans for what to do when an oil spill occurs. Many such businesses rely on the Spillpro as a trusted tool in the fight to clean up harmful contaminants.

In a perfect world, we would all practice careful precautions when dealing with large quantities of oil and mass-scale spills would never occur. In reality, however, mistakes do happen. Once a spill occurs, there are a number of potential courses of action. One of them, known as bioremediation, sets itself apart in terms of environmental friendliness and efficiency.

Bioremediation involves the use of various microorganisms and plant enzymes which break down soil contaminants and return the setting of the spill to its original splendor. This tactic bears the distinct advantage of treating the problem without the need for excavation and further disposal of contaminated water. If a spill is caught quickly and treated with bioremediation, the environmental dangers are kept to a minimum.

One use of bioremediation is the application of biological microbes for the clean up of hazardous oil spills or remaining film resulting in a safe, efficient and cost-effective solution. Bioremediation uses microbes, enzymes, oxygen and other nutrients to chemically transform oil into carbon dioxide and water. BioRem-2000 Surface Cleaner™ increases the surface area of the oil while the enzymes break down the contaminants into smaller molecules. The enzymes then attract the microbes and consume the oil leaving only water and carbon dioxide as by-products. Once the reaction is complete, the enzymes break free to attach to another hydrocarbon source in order to repeat the same reaction.

There is a new filtration system coming soon that will allow you to reuse your oil. According to most experts, if you filter your oil properly, and add back some new oil, your old oil will be good as new; possibly even better. If you stay tuned to our site, you will learn about an opportunity to save huge $$$$$ by reusing your oil, hydraulic fluid and antifreeze. This will be accomplished by an add on to a pneumatic tool to further expand its many other uses.

We send trillions of dollars overseas to countries, (some who hate us) for oil, when we have the ability to recycle our petroleum products. There are hundreds of millions of gallons of these used products today that are just being discarded.

So get with the program and at the same time save yourself a lot of money.

Even oil spills and other spills like hydraulic fluids and antifreeze can be picked up with this pneumatic tool and recycled.

How Car Fluids are Recycled

What Happens Next to Car Fluids

Unlike many other recyclable materials that are “down cycled” each time they have been used, motor oil and other similar car fluids just need to be cleaned to be used again as the same product.

Many used fluids such as motor oil, antifreeze, windshield fluid and transmission fluid can be re-refined, reconditioned or reused for a new life as the same products. Motor oil also can be used as:

• An energy source for industrial boilers, power plants or other combustion facilities
• A raw material used by the petroleum industry

The consumer plays a vital role in this loop. Recycling your used car fluids can help create new products and less waste.