Purpose
Oil spills have devastated shorelines and oceans around the world. Wildlife has perished, and beaches have become unsafe in these places. When an oil spill occurs, it is not so simple to clean up with a budget and only a handful of time before the oil causes more damage. If you search up oil spill on google you will come up with many pictures of endangered animals covered with oil and struggling to cling on to life. It also impacts us because beaches get closed because of the sand absorbing the oil. It would have rendered a shoreline acidic and dangerous. Recently, a gigantic amount of oil, about 4.9 million barrels, has flooded into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill, and we want to make sure that we can help prevent another one from happening.
A reason that we are doing this experiment is to see how effective our 4 materials can be, just like a budget. We want to get more effect for the amount of materials we use. The most prominent reason, however, is that we want to figure out good ways to clean up crude oil spills so we can impact the environment in a positive way. We hope that you are able to understand how important to wildlife and people alike that we figure out constructive ways to clean up oil. Below is a picture of a beach that has been closed due to an oil spill.
A reason that we are doing this experiment is to see how effective our 4 materials can be, just like a budget. We want to get more effect for the amount of materials we use. The most prominent reason, however, is that we want to figure out good ways to clean up crude oil spills so we can impact the environment in a positive way. We hope that you are able to understand how important to wildlife and people alike that we figure out constructive ways to clean up oil. Below is a picture of a beach that has been closed due to an oil spill.