I. MOP Environmental Solutions, Inc, Mission and Company Description

Mission statement: MOP Environmental Solutions is dedicated to creating sustainable approaches to difficult environmental challenges including oil spill remediation, recovery and filtration. Recently MES has expanded its mission to a broader range of challenges and solutions including groundwater pollution, waste remediation and bioenergy generation and carbon negative energy solutions. 

MES’s Oil spill containment and remediation remains the most important aspect of our mission and is built around our patented MOP Maximum Oil Pickup sorbents, MOP 201, MOP 301 and 401. MOP sorbents are the most cost-effective and performance-efficient sorbents on the planet. MOP, (Maximum Oil Pickup) sorbents are used to create a family of products and solutions/processes that yield a more environmentally sound and financially beneficial end result by re-capturing or recycling the oil or energy and reducing the generation of hazardous wastes where removal of oil from water based-solvents and coolants can be achieved.

MOP sorbents and sorbent-based products are manufactured using green, low-head hydroelectric power, MOP is the only cradle-to-cradle green oil spill remediation product on the planet, utilizing sustainable, environmentally friendly methodologies and products to achieve the highest levels of performance at an affordable and competitive cost.

II.  MOP Sorbents and Other Core Products
 

MOP - Maximum Oil Pickup oil sorbent (Oil absorption medium) is - by far - the most cost-efficient and performance-effective oil sorbent in existence. MOP is manufactured in three forms, MOP 201 is optimized for use on water. It is also the sorbent used with our patented Soil RESCUE process to remediate oil contaminated soil on site (in situ).  MOP 301 is optimized for use on land and specifically is designed to aid in the remediation of oil contaminated soil where recovery of the resource is not possible or desired. Both can be used in either environment, but their effectiveness is maximized when they are used according to their optimization. MOP 301 has two different iterations: 301-I, our main 301 sorbent line with a preferred nutrient that acts as a catalyst for the rapid growth of oil consuming bacteria, indigenous to the soil. MOP301-M adds additional oil consuming microbes.  MOP 401 is a Universal sorbent and a floor sweep. MOP 201 and 301 absorb oil and repel water. MOP 401 absorbs both oil-based liquids and water-based liquids.

While the formula for MOP is a trade secret, it is possible to say that all the major components of MOP sorbents are created from all recycled materials.  For customers and others interested in recycling and environmental stewardship it is important to know that the sorbents are created  from sectors of the waste stream, known as “recovered materials” the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) term for materials that are technically recyclable but that otherwise are without markets for the recycled materials. EPA, understandably, places a high priority on the use of items that employ “recovered materials” giving MOP an additional leg up on the competition in government bids and contract negotiations. Furthermore, because recovered materials constitute the highest percentage of our sorbent’s makeup, our raw materials costs are more stable and predictable and less subject to the fluctuations of  the market for other raw materials like polypropylene.

Manufactured using hydroelectric power, MOP’s patented process employs only biodegradable materials. The final formula makes 201 and 301 sorbents Oleophilic (oil loving/absorbant) and hydrophobic (water hating/repelling). With properties like this, the moment that the sorbent is spread on an oil spill on land or water, it sucks up the oil and repels any water. This means that as the sorbent is cleaned up only oil is captured with it. For those circumstances where picking up both hydrocarbon-based liquids and water-based liquids is desired (an automobile accident, a garage floor for example) MOP 401 is optimized to absorb almost all liquids.

Using any one of several different paths and processes, the oil-laden sorbent can be:

• burned as bio-mass fuel in a traditional biomass energy system or a pyrolysis fuel system to convert the biomass into biofuels, heat and energy.
• bioremediated in a landfarm or industrial compost;
• Processed to recovered the oil. The highest value path is to convert spilled oil through a extraction process utilizing a low cost press system to recapture up to 60 % of the spilled oil or using one of  MOP's Petroleum Extraction Tools (MOP PET). MOP PETs are capable of processing from 60 gallons per day to as much as 100 gallons per minute, built exclusively for MOP, and are available through MES.

Because MOP acts as both an absorbing medium and a filtration medium, the oil that emerges from any method of recapturing oil will be as clean or cleaner than the oil that was spilled. 

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