Green

Regenesis Technologies and Green Remediation

The USEPA defines Green Remediation as:

The practice of considering all environmental effects of remedy implementation and incorporating options to maximize the net environmental benefit of cleanup actions..

Green Remediation is a term which refers to cleanup techniques which have a low impact on climate change and on the environment as a whole. Green Remediation is also often referred to as Sustainable Remediation, as this term implies site cleanup employing environmentally sustainable practices.

Several highly credible organizations have focused on defining a set of principles to guide the definition of Green Remediation or Sustainable Remediation. Key among these is the Network for Industrial Contaminated Land in Europe (NICOLE) Sustainable Remediation Workgroup and the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA).

The NICOLE Sustainable Remediation Workgroup is successfully structuring a framework for guiding the implementation of green remediation based upon input from across the European Union. The USEPA is developing national guidance for the practice of green remediation and has published its first guidance document outlining the key aspects of green or sustainable remediation with the publication of the “Technology Primer Green Remediation: Incorporating Sustainable Environmental Practices into Remediation of Contaminated Sites U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response ( April 2008)”.

Regenesis has maintained an unparalleled focus on developing products that reduce the overall energy requirements of the site remediation while limiting air emissions including GHGs. For a more detailed discussion on how the use of Regenesis’ products meets or exceeds the USEPA’s green remediation practices guidance go to our Technical Bulletin on “How Regenesis Products relate to Green Remediation.”