Soil Remediation

The vast majority of soil remediation involves removal and disposal of the contaminated soil. Generally this is effected by transporting the soil and burying it in a state with more land available than the State where the problem originated. Current solutions are not viable solutions to many of these problems based on the costs related to equipment, treatment, or required energy to treat affected soil. Corporate America has controlled negative PR by publicly confirming that they are responsibly cleaning up after themselves, when they are really relocating the problem to another place and time. The current trends of Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) will soon mandate that companies disclose their disposal practices.

With MacroDynamics, soil infested with nematodes and/or nematode eggs is exposed to alternating stress and pressure amplitudes that inactivate and destroy plant parasitic nematodes and their eggs. No chemicals are needed to accomplish 100% inactivation of such infestation. Bacterial inactivation happens within seconds in a one-step process. Soils laden with contaminants are treated by introducing small amounts of water (moist consistency) and then processed in the same way that contaminated water is treated. An adsorbent is added in process which extracts the contaminants from the soil. The water is then separated from the soil thereby removing contaminants.