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What A Waste: Sewage Spill Shuts Down Beaches in SoCal
March 2, 2022
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 ...
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We Want to “Dish” About Spill Clean Up
February 23, 2022
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 ...
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What Social Media Can Teach Us About Spill Containment
February 16, 2022
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 ...
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School Daze
February 9, 2022
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 ...
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How to Weather Winter
February 2, 2022
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 ...
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Are You Getting Enough Fiber?
January 26, 2022
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 ...
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Help Wanted: Transforming The Great Resignation Into The Great Inspiration
January 19, 2022
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 ...
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Can the Beatles Boost Productivity?
January 12, 2022
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, ...
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How to Lose Weight in the New Year
January 5, 2022
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 ...
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Greening Your Business in the New Year
December 22, 2021
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 ...
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How to Drum Up Spill Safety
December 15, 2021
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 ...
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Slippery When Wet: How to Prevent Slip and Fall Injuries
December 8, 2021
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 ...
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December Redux: A Health and Safety Foreshadowing
December 1, 2021
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 ...
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Pet Frenzy
November 24, 2021
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 ...
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The Eating Season
November 17, 2021
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 ...
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Going Oil-In
November 10, 2021
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 ...
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Spill Clean Up Solutions for Time Travelers
November 3, 2021
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 ...
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Get Edgy. And Hold On to Your Hat!
October 27, 2021
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. ...
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Oh, Leaf Me Alone!
October 20, 2021
You may think the changing autumn leaves are beautiful, and they are — on the tree. But once that brilliant red and gold foliage falls ...
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29 Again? Yes, it’s our birthday.
October 13, 2021
Next year’s going to be the big one: we turn 30, and that used to mean adulthood, for real. However, since Impact Absorbents is a ...
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After the Fire
October 6, 2021
California has been aflame this year more than ever before, with hot, dry, windy conditions consuming forests and homes statewide. As of October 1st, more ...
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Bucket-ing the Trend
September 22, 2021
Social pressure to go along with the crowd has never been as intense as it has since the rise of social media. Back in prehistoric ...
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Emergency Response? Been There, Done That
September 16, 2021
The past two years have been a global emergency, and most of us are now suffering from compassion fatigue. We care; we’re just burnt out ...
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Mutations? We Can Absorb the Problem
September 8, 2021
Have you noticed that a lot of people and places seem to be having technical issues lately? One restaurant we know of had to replace ...
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Back to School — For Real!
September 1, 2021
It’s been 18 months, long enough for quite a few babies to be born during this most unusual time, and their older siblings are probably ...
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Players for the Planet
August 25, 2021
Believe it or not, there’s a National Petroleum Day — conveniently situated at the end of summer, when Americans have been on the road for ...
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Clay Is for Ceramics, Not Spills!
August 18, 2021
Our team at Impact Absorbents loves animals. Many of the Impact family share their homes with dogs and cats. (With cats, it’s more correct to ...
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It’s Been A Blast… But Oh, That Mess!
August 11, 2021
Summer means all manner of outdoor fun, though it didn’t in 2020. So people have a missed summer to make up for, even if they’re ...
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Not Horsing Around
August 4, 2021
When a number of riders took a spill in the recent Tour de France, thanks to a spectator who was a little overzealous about capturing ...
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Late July: It’s Crackers!
July 28, 2021
There’s a company called Late July that makes some pretty tasty crackers and chips. They’re healthy snacks, too, and with sustainable packaging. The company says ...
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