Green Tech of the Week: Obsorb

The ability to quickly remove oil and gasoline from water is a technology crucial to protecting our ecosystems from oil spills and the advancement of water purification.


"Intended to purify our groundwater from dangerous pollutants like gasoline (note: it doesn't appear that Obsorb can handle crude oil, but I could be mistaken), Obsorb is a hydrophobic material comprised of active glass—in other words, its glass actually bonds with bad chemicals, but it won't take any water along with the pollutants."

"Once full of up to 8x its weight in gunk, Obsorb floats to the water's surface where it can be skimmed, ringed out (by other chemicals, we believe) and dropped back in the water hundreds of times."

Source: Gizmodo via Obsorb via CleanTechnica via Inhabitat