Mopping Up Disasters: Textiles Protect People and the Planet

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Musante, Glenna B.

• It’s difficult to forget the images from the 2010 Deep Horizon disaster. Miles of once pristine white beach and turquoise waters along the Gulf of Mexico were mired for months in a carpet of heavy black crude oil, punctuated by tides bearing fish kills and beach fowl drowning in sludge.
  The gusher, which began with an explosion on an oil rig, dumped as much as 210 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. It drenched shores from Florida to Texas in oil and sludge and caused billions of dollars in damage to the environment and local economies.

• Date created

  2014-12-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Chemistry
  • Engineering
  • Materials Science

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-sjv3-h234

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