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How to Hazmat: A Primer On What to Avoid

A few weeks ago, some hazmat workers in a town north of Impact Absorbents’ headquarters stopped an early morning chemical spill from reaching local waterways. ...
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Foodies: Are You Spill Savvy?

It’s that time of year again: friends and relatives near and far choose to clog the highways and byways of our fine land in an ...
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Coney Island: A Spill-Safe Place to Live?

Coney Island, located at the tip of Brooklyn, is nicknamed, “Playground of the World,” thanks to its plethora of amusement parks and reputation as a ...
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El Nino Returns: What Will It Mean for Our Winter?

Children don’t typically influence the weather, though they are known for precipitating spill clean up events. But El Nino (“little boy” in Spanish) is a ...
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Clock This: Time Changes Everything

At 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 5th, the United States will turn back the clock. No, we’re not heading into a kinder, gentler era; just ...
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Transparency: Know What’s In Your Spill Clean Up Products

Transparency is a hot topic these days. Celebrities wear transparent clothing on the red carpet. Sometimes they even forget to put on pants. That’s being ...
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Pay Attention! It’s Accident Season

Attention isn’t a recognized medium of exchange. You can’t buy groceries with it, or get your car fixed by listening with unwavering attention to the ...
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The Secret Life of Leaves

Leaves are all around us, and serve so many purposes. Leafy greens are good for you; you’ll want to eat lots of them. Turning over ...
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31 Years Young!

Impact Absorbents has been leading the spill clean up and spill containment industry for more than three decades. With worldwide distribution, it’s amazing to realize ...
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Just Say No to Clay

Remember Nancy Reagan’s Just Say No campaign? Hers targeted drugs, but made no mention of clay. Which is too bad, because clay is definitely hazardous ...
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Management Tips for Spill Heroes

A lot of people aspire to a management position, especially when they’re just starting out in their career. Of course, if you own your own ...
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Textbooks — Or Texts?

Do children even study from textbooks anymore, or is it all screens now? Are there still human teachers at the head of the classroom, or ...
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The Heat Is On

Hawaii, once known as a premier tourist destination, has been under siege from wildfires. Fires have also been choking the air over the East coast ...
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Don’t Mondegreen Your Spill Clean Up!

Remember that Jimi Hendrix classic, Purple Haze, where he sang, “‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy”? Or what about when Credence Clearwater Revival appeared ...
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You’re So Square (Baby I Don’t Care)

The tune was written for Elvis, and recorded by him as well as a slew of other famous musicians, including the Beatles, Joni Mitchell, and ...
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Botox Your Business for Spill Safety

That’s a pretty strange title, isn’t it? Yet think about what Botox does: it’s a non-surgical procedure that helps you look younger, with fewer facial ...
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Going to Extremes

Ocean temperatures like bath water. Flooding in Vermont. Smoky skies over Central Park, resembling the worst of California’s wildfires. We’re living in extreme times: heat, ...
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The FOG That’s Not Due to Weather

Anyone who has spent time in the San Francisco Bay Area during the summer months knows that this is not the time to wear shorts ...
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ESG is Good for Spills

You’re probably familiar with MSG, a harmful additive that’s often hidden in foods under innocent-sounding labels. ESG is much better for you. ESG stands for ...
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Chem Class: Don’t Spill the Experiment!

Remember high school chemistry? In chem class, the one major admonishment your teacher probably made was to be careful. Even though you weren’t doing hazmat ...
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A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight

“There’ll be a hot time in the old town tonight,” goes an old American standard. When Theodore Metz composed this tune near the end of ...
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What Do You Harbor?

Some people harbor resentment, which can lead to anger spilling over into caustic language. And while we specialize in cleaning up caustic spills, and spills ...
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Car Culture: Spill Solutions for the Road

In Shania Twain’s hilarious takedown song, she says she’s not impressed even if a guy is Brad Pitt. She also sings, “OK, so you’ve got ...
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Shopping for Spill Safety

Do you like shopping? Many women (and a lot of guys, too!) love the thrill of the hunt, not for big game but for big ...
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After the Concert

You may have heard that a certain pop superstar has been playing to sold-out stadiums this spring. We weren’t able to snag tickets, but there ...
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Step-by-Step Spill Response

Click to Expand Accidental spills and leaks can seriously affect the environment, public health, and a company’s reputation. For example, oil and chemical spills can ...
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Up on the Roof

‘Way back in 1963, “Up on the Roof” was a hit for The Drifters. James Taylor recorded it in 1979, and again the song climbed ...
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No Picnic! Preparing for A Bio Spill …

The weather is warmer, and after the winter we’ve had, everyone wants to be outdoors as much as possible. Picnics are a lovely way to ...
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Texting on the Trail

Now that the weather is nice, it feels good to spend time outside. One of the joys of being in Nature is peace and quiet. ...
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Protecting the Pacific from Oil Spills

In March, President Biden designated 770,000 square miles southwest of Hawaii as a new marine sanctuary. That’s a lot of water. To put it in ...
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