Hello Minja; There are ...

Hello Minja; There are several alternate methods of oil spill cleanup other than dispersants. There are multiple products readily available for industrial spills. They are called "spill pig booms"; they are large absorbent floating, tubular pillows which only absorb oil and chemicals, not water. There are also very newly developed oil adsorbent microfiber screens which can be applied like a sediment screen for water applications. This application can be deployed just like a large "fishing net" around the spill and absorb the oil/chemicals. Then the entire net is reeled in with the trapped spill material contained within. I wholly agree with not employing "dispersants". These chemicals do not disassociate the target constituent; rather these chemicals change the  viscosity and the relative mass of the target constituent. When these dispersants were used in the BP Deep Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the oil disappeared from the surface; only to coagulate underwater with bubbles of oil the size of VolksWagon's  beetle cars, in multiple submerged plumes  up to1,000 miles long and at various depth's all inevitably settling to the floor of the Gulf and covering the Benthos. Please feel free to contact me for more information at: Phone - 410-388-0898 / Email: irsd7@verizon.net