Cleaning polluted areas across the nation and the world is easier as a result of NASA's role in the creation of a biodegradable environmental cleanup technology that neutralizes toxic chemicals in water sources. The technology has led to numerous commercial applications that are restoring the health of the environment.
During the Apollo Program, workers cleaned rocket engine components with chlorinated solvents, which unfortunately permeated and contaminated the area’s groundwater. Years later, a NASA environmental engineer helped develop an innovative technology capable of cleaning the groundwater in an environmentally friendly way. The technology, called EZVI, uses nano-sized iron particles in a water and biodegradable oil emulsification. Injected into the soil, it neutralizes toxic chemicals in the groundwater, leaving only nontoxic byproducts.
Learn more about how NASA helped develop technology that impacts biodegradable environmental cleanup within your city's coastal environment!