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The Time for PCB Cleanup is Now!

The time for large scale cleanup of the PCB environmental catastrophe is now. Advances in physical and biological methods to concentrate and breakdown polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) provide the impetus to re-explore the commitment for eliminating this environmental tragedy. The global market for the eradication of PCB agents has been estimated at $ 40 billion. However, it is only now with emerging and proven technologies available to eradicate these contaminants that large scale attention is being directed towards the elimination of a global problem.

PCBs have until now proven resistant to decomposition and destruction. Methods now exist to both concentrate and eliminate this dangerous environmental agent – production banned for nearly 30 years, and yet millions of millions of pounds of the compounds remain in the ground, in the water and in the air.

PCB molecules are composed of a biphenyl backbone substituted with 1 to 10 chlorines. In the United States they were produced under the trade name Araclor. The importance of remedial action against polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) is imperative. Time after time, these hazardous compounds have proven to cause detrimental effects to the environment, posing a great threat to animal and human health. They are associated with multiple adverse health effects and are known human carcinogens.

Signs of PCBs’ harmful effects were noted soon after initial commercial production in the 1930’s; however, manufacturers and policy makers failed to take notice to prevent today’s mass contamination. Since the ban of PCB production in 1977 many national governments have agreed to take action, encouraging companies to rid the environment of PCBs. Many PCB clean-up methods have emerged as a result of solution-seeking companies.

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The Time for PCB Cleanup is Now!