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OUR STORY - RE-DEFINING WHAT AN ENVIRONMENTAL COMPANY IS

Protecting our environment in a proactive and preventative manner is the goal of Upstream Environmental. Similar objectives are now major policy objectives of state and provincial governments as well as corporate sustainability mandates of North American companies. Public awareness and criticism of current practices emphasizes the need for the marketplace to implement more proactive and preventative solutions.

The existing remediation industry uses a variety of products and processes to address spills. The products include everything from used rags (old clothing) to synthetic rags and chemicals. To clean small areas of contamination the process is typically extremely labour intensive. In the case of larger spills machinery is used to remove the water or soil, commonly referred to within the remediation industry as a “dig and dump”.

Once the rags and chemicals have been used they are collected and sent to a remediation company for “recycling”, where they are washed in an attempt to recover as much of the hydrocarbons and chemicals as possible. The “cleaned” rags are then either burned or sent to the landfill along with the unusable liquids. In the case of larger water or soil spills, the contaminated water or soil is trucked directly to an approved landfill and dumped into large cement- lined holes which are eventually sealed off; thus leaving the problem for future generations to address.

Upstream Environmental has changed this approach dramatically by selling re-usable containment systems made from recycled tire by-products. The products are sent to the field for use, then gathered and remediated to recover the hydrocarbons collected. The “used” tire material is then removed and recycled into concrete products. “New” recycled tire by-product is then inserted and recycled to the field.