The Agency for Strategic Initiatives (ASI) has sent projects for monitoring, cleaning the air and water environment, and restoring the ecosystem to the federal operational headquarters for liquidating the fuel oil spill consequences in the Black Sea. The projects included the MMBI RAS development "Biofilters - plantations of fucoid algae", which has been tested in northern waters. The solution is based on a set of water purification methods that utilize the metabolic potential of biological objects. After a spill of oil products, the algae block the oil slick, preventing it from spreading, and immediately begin processing the resulting pollutants with the help of bacteria. The cleanup is performed not by the algae themselves, but by the bacteria that live in symbiosis with them. This solution is advisable for use at the stage after the collection and disposal of the main mass of fuel oil; it will serve to clean coastal zones from minor remnants of the oil product spill that are inaccessible for mechanical collection.
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