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We have been remediating lakes infested with harmful algal blooms for the last 5 years. We have now realized that in the process we are also removing CO2 on very large scale.
About
BlueGreen's mission is to make water safe. The company is focused on restoring, safeguarding, and optimizing sustainability, accessibility, and biodiversity of waterbody ecosystems worldwide - including wildlife, aquatic life, and economies. BlueGreen is the first company in the world to develop, obtain regulatory approval for and commercialize a technology suite that tackles large-scale water issues (starting with harmful algal blooms) in a process resulting in greenhouse-gas removal with a vast set of social and environmental co-benefits. BlueGreen eliminates toxic algal blooms or prevents them from blooming altogether , using regulatory-approved formulas to restore the natural, ecological equilibrium. Post-intervention monitoring, analysis, and prediction guide future prevention and treatment. These EPA-approved and NSF/ ANSI/CAN-60 standard products are certified for use in drinking water sources. Applied surgically, they activate a selective biological process in the water, which causes the toxic species to rapidly decline. Competing beneficial microorganisms emerge that contribute to waterbody rehabilitation and help restore a healthy, biodiverse environment.
Key Benefits
1. By eliminating the toxic algal blooms - we provide safe water for humans, wildlife and environment 2. Restoration of biodiversity in treated aquatic environments (fish aquatic vegetation, birds, wildlife) 3. Removal of greenhouse gasses on very large scale (44,000 ton / sqkm of lake) 4. positive social implications of rehabilitating sick lakes (i.e livelihood in fishing and afgriculture) Our projects meet UN SDG's 3,6,11,13,14,15,17 (!!!)
Applications
We can treat any size of waterbody (we have carried out successful remediation projects from 10 acre to thousands in 3 continents). Therefore for whatever the water is used for , our projects bring a dramatic improvement. These water uses are typically: drinking , agriculture, fishing, recreational , utilities (cooling water), environmental, tourism related. On top of lake remediation , in many large scale lakes we are capturing and removing vast amounts of GHG and permanently removing them from the atmosphere thereby also creating financial value of high value carbon removal credits.