GENERAL INFORMATION
About Enretech, the Company
Environmental Due Diligence
Bioremediation Explained
About Enretech Products
Hydrocarbons Absorbed/Degraded

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• Biodegradation:  — where the breaking down of a compound or substance is achieved with living organisms such as bacteria or fungi.  These could be indigenous to the area, or could be introduced 
• Biostimulation — where the natural or introduced population of microbes in an area is enhanced through addition of nutrients, engineering, or other manipulation of an area.  This speeds up the natural remediation process 
• Bioaugmentation — where specific living organisms are added to a site or material to achieve a desired bioremediation effect.
• Biorestoration — restoration to original or near original state using living microbes. 

Bacteria that “eat up” oil (hydrocarbons)

• Some natural bacteria are able to take advantage of the rich source of energy in petroleum products (hydrocarbons), and use oils and other hydrocarbons as a food source.
• This totally degrades the complex chain of molecules, leaving only harmless Carbon Dioxide and Water.

Environmental Remediation Technology (“EnReTech”) speeds up the process

• The original, unaugmented colonies are slow-acting, and occur only in small numbers.
• Today’s technology has “bred” these microbes to obtain a faster growing, and more hungry organism.
• Their growth has been stimulated by the addition of nutrients, and techniques have been developed to maximize their growth. 

The Result:   Microbes that eat oil in a matter of days or weeks instead of years!

• Using bacteria to break down oils is remarkably inexpensive when compared with removing and landfilling the waste.
• The microbes produce enzymes which cut up the hydrocarbon molecule and to provide food for the microbe.
• When the bacteria’s food source is depleted, they die off, leaving a harmless, nutrient-rich, fertilizer-like substance.

The Enretech Key:  Indigenous microbes with strong survival capabilities

• The key to effective bioremediation, however, is the use of bacteria that can withstand the onslaught of other microbes already in the contaminated ground.
• Enretech uses bacteria that are indigenous to the cotton plant which is the source of the Enretech manufacturing process.
• These microbes have therefore had millions of years to adapt to their indigenous (cotton) environment. This significantly increases their survival rate compared with ‘foreign’ microbes that are sometimes ill-advisedly added to oil-contaminated ground in the belief that this will achieve effective remediation.
• Enretech is therefore a premium product that is, by its very nature, highly effective and sets industry standards in the bioremediation of oil-contaminated ground.