BioTech Restorations

Persistent organic chemical pollutants have not been considered viable candidates for lower cost biological treatments (bioremediation) because these chemical compounds were specifically designed to resist breakdown. On examination of the most persistent and toxic of the chemicals of concern, you will note a common denominator in that all share a highly chlorinated chemical structure.
 
In a research project funded by Hercules Chemical, a link was identified between the presence of the pesticide toxaphene (CAS#: 8001-35-2) and an impairment within the indigenous soil bacteria to express reductive enzymes. In numerous studies on other chlorinated chemical compounds, a similar chemically induced impairment was discovered. BioTech's science team concluded that chlorinated organic chemical pollutants persist in the environment because the chemicals inhibit the indigenous bacteria's capacity to produce the enzymes necessary to reduce the target compounds to component organic carbon for mineralization and reproduction. In soils and sediments where persistent organic pollutants are present, the indigenous microbial population simply avoids what they are incapable of reducing to seek out more readily available carbon based food sources.

BioTech Restorations developed an effective method to stimulate the indigenous bacteria's capacity to secrete reductive enzymes in impacted soils and sediments. Within treated soils, the indigenous bacteria become immune to the induced chemical impairment and are able to attach to and rapidly degrade the target pollutants. Post treatment studies that evidence dramatic spikes in liberated chloride ion production with concurrent reductions in the target pollutant prove conclusively that BioTech's treatments result in accelerated enzymatic de-chlorination followed by rapid destruction of all residual constituent organics from the parent compound.

Now commercial, industrial and agricultural sites as well as waterways polluted by persistent organic pollutants can be effectively cleaned up for a fraction of the cost of conventional treatments.