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Cookin’ Good: How to Beat the FOG
It’s hot; maybe humid, depending in where you dwell, and nobody wants to cook. Except restaurateurs, for whom food is bread and butter, in a …
Why the Ground Can Be A Dangerous Place
Summer seems like a relatively benign season. No icy roads, snow or hail, and in many places, not even any rain. Unless you live some …
What To Do On Summer Break
School may not have been live and in person for very long this year, but that doesn’t mean kids aren’t as happy as always to …
Safe Harbor
What does it take to stay safe in the water? As a child, it probably meant a cute flotation device — along with the watchful …
Take A Deep Breath
If there’s one thing we’re enjoying this spring, it’s breathing. Without masks. In some places. The mask mandates surge and ebb, depending on what the …
Smart Science: The Labpack You Need
We know what you’re thinking: science is not your strong suit. Subjects like chemistry and biology belong back in high school. But not in the …
How (Not) to Become a Drain Surgeon
If you blanch at the thought of blood and never considered going to medical school, you can still become a surgeon of sorts: a drain …
Just Say No, And Stay Safe
Several presidencies ago, the First Lady launched a memorable campaign about how people should respond when offered drugs: Just say no! If you have an …
Neutrality: What The World Needs Now
It’s just a little challenging in the world today, when war breaks out abroad and nations everywhere take sides. It’s also more than a little …
Breakdown Dead Ahead
When Boz Scaggs sang about there being a breakdown dead ahead, he wasn’t referring to a mechanical failure — or to leaching hazardous chemicals. …
A “Paintless” Solution for Sprucing Up the Office
Did you think that was a typo in the headline? Nope — just a little wordplay. Because now that we’re getting back to in-person work …
“Slipped, Tripped, and Fell in…”
Angela Strehli recorded her version of a 1970s tune called “Slipped, Tripped, and Fell in Love,” but being in the spill clean up business, when one of …
What A Waste: Sewage Spill Shuts Down Beaches in SoCal
In late February, a sewage spill in southern California forced beach closures for the second time in two months. This one was the result of …
We Want to “Dish” About Spill Clean Up
Have you heard of the latest dishwasher? It’s an AI-enabled dishwashing device marketed as being a solution “for every home & office. Dishcare eliminates the …
What Social Media Can Teach Us About Spill Containment
You may be thinking. “This is not a fit. Social media is digital by nature. Spill clean up is analog.” (Although if you spill coffee …
School Daze
Now that school’s resuming — sort of, in some places, depending on our ever-evolving health landscape — many kids are actually happy to be returning …
How to Weather Winter
Here in California, we’re grateful for severe winter storms, because it’s helped to ease our equally severe drought conditions. Even though the temperatures outside are …
Are You Getting Enough Fiber?
Fiber. It used to be the essence of many commercials targeted towards older adults: products that claimed to, um, move things along, much as ingesting …
Help Wanted: Transforming The Great Resignation Into The Great Inspiration
If there’s one positive to come out of the pandemic, it’s people’s reflection on how they spend their days, and whether their work is truly …
Can the Beatles Boost Productivity?
January might as well be called “Lethargy.” The weather is dull and cold and often wet, slip and fall incidents increase, people have less energy, …
How to Lose Weight in the New Year
Many people start a diet in January. Most of them don’t last very long. But we try. Impact Absorbents knows an ideal way to “lose …
Greening Your Business in the New Year
Have you noticed something different about Impact Absorbents products lately? Yes, they’re still the same premier, eco-friendly spill clean up and spill containment solutions you’ve …
How to Drum Up Spill Safety
Last month we wrote about how fall is the eating season, especially during the COVID era, when people are thrilled to be able to dine …
Slippery When Wet: How to Prevent Slip and Fall Injuries
It’s fall, and we don’t want to. Fall, that is. As we slide into winter, the hazards spread. But slip and fall accidents can happen …
December Redux: A Health and Safety Foreshadowing
Two years ago, just prior to COVID-19 rearing its ugly head around the globe, OSHA issued a mandate designed to minimize exposure to hazardous drugs in …
Pet Frenzy
The Impact Absorbents family has a lot of kids among us. And a lot of pets. Somehow the two go hand-in-hand. And somehow, the two …
The Eating Season
There’s something about fall that seems to make people hungry. Maybe it’s the cooler weather, and a throwback to when our ancestors needed to store …
Going Oil-In
It’s happened again. Early last month, a pipeline in Huntington Beach, California sustained a lateral gash, and oil came gushing into Orange County waters, closing …
Spill Clean Up Solutions for Time Travelers
Remember the beloved movie Groundhog Day, in which Bill Murray kept reliving the same day over and over again until he’d learned from all of …
Get Edgy. And Hold On to Your Hat!
It’s autumn across the U.S., and you know what that means. Cozy sweaters. Kids underfoot earlier in the afternoon, unless you allow them more screentime. …