Spill-Sorb completely removed all the Bunker Oil from the sea water and oil mix encountered during the construction of the Southern Sun Hotel. Here water, cleaned by being filtered and the hydrocarbons being totally encapsulated by the Spill-Sorb, runs over the harbour wall in Cape Town. The 4000 mm Spill-Sorb filled boom around the filters, as seen in the photograph, acts as a barrier in the event that any oil escaped while a tank was being recharged with Spill-Sorb.

The Result: For a nominal cost, the contracting engineers managed to clean the oil waste "on site" using Spill-Sorb as the encapsulating medium. An outstanding saving was being able to allow the now cleaned sea water to run back into the ocean. The oil-filled Spill-Sorb was economically removed to a land fill near by, with no threat of it ever leaching the encapsulated Bunker Oil.

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