Spreading the Health: Xerox Shares Toxic Waste Cleanup Process
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 - 12:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Up until the 1980s, Xerox used volatile organic compounds as solvents for cleaning. Needless to say, some of them spilled and ended up contaminating the ground--and groundwater--beneath manufacturing facilities. By the company's own count, there were 68 such sites. When faced with the task of cleaning up, Xerox opted to tinker with the existing technology to do the job--and in the process hit on a way to radically speed the cleanup. [More]