LITHUANIAN SCIENTISTS WON EUREKA INNOVATION AWARD
Updated 2011-06-27
Lithuanian scientists clean up at 2011 EUREKA Innovation Award
A Lithuanian-led EUREKA environmental technology project has scooped this year’s EUREKA Innovation Award, announced in a ceremony in the Israeli capital this morning. Israeli television presenter Yigal Ravid, handed over the prize – a trophy and a media package worth 15,000 euro - to a delighted Monika Kavaliauske, Manager at JSC Biocentras, a Vilnius-based SME, which led the project E! 2522 OPTISOIL CLEAN.
It is well known just how damaging oil can be to nature. It is also well known just how difficult it can be to clean up after a spill or contamination. Removing an oil spill or contamination from soil is hard and requires very different techniques to removing oil from water. A Lithuanian company, Biocentras, together with academic partners from Latvia and Lithuania, developed a technique that has so far cleaned over 22,000 tons of soil without the need for potentially harmful chemicals or genetically-modified technologies. This natural process transforms contaminated soil so that it can be used again for growing all kinds of plants.
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