Pollution
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 surgeon rather than a brain surgeon. But we don’t recommend it. See, a drain surgeon is someone who has to dig deep into a stopped up drain, either at your […]
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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 iron will, this works. Maybe. When it comes to spill clean up, however, it’s easier to just say no, because we offer an alternative to which it’s easy to say
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When Boz Scaggs sang about there being a breakdown dead ahead, he wasn’t referring to a mechanical failure — or to leaching hazardous chemicals. But the words do grab one’s attention. How do you prevent hazardous waste, or indeed any type of spill, from escaping its spill clean up solution? By understanding the distinction
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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 a blocked sewer line at a Newport Bay restaurant, which resulted in 50,000 gallons of sewage spilling into nearby waters. The previous one was even more serious: a sewage main
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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 beans, bananas, apples, avocados and similar foods do. At Impact Absorbents, we have a different take on fiber. While we also believe you need to take your fiber on a
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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 weight” in 2022: don’t dwell in Fatberg. Fatberg isn’t located in a specific state. It’s a state of being: a very large mass of solid waste in a sewage system, typically
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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 come to rely on for nearly 30 years now. And while we’ve been an environmentally conscious company from day one, now there’s validation for this effort: ECOLOGO® Certification. ECOLOGO® Certification
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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 beaches and requiring a total of seven aircraft, 11 boats and more than 320 people to support the spill clean up efforts. An astonishing 11,360 feet of boom was deployed
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. Yummy fall fruits and vegetables. And wind. Now, wind has its strong points. It’s a wonderful source of renewable energy, and at Impact Absorbents, we’re all about environmental consciousness and
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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 business and not a person (though it’s comprised of some pretty cool people!) we’re pleased to say we’ve been “all grown up” since childhood — though we did move from
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