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The Denver Post Street Smarts Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2001

The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Mar. 18--SWEET-TASTING STUFF EATS UP TOXIC WASTE: Remember Dan Aykroyd's "Saturday Night Live" ad skit for a new product that was both a dessert topping and a floor wax?

If so, you'll appreciate a new toxic-waste cleanup technology created by Highlands Ranch-based Arcadis Geraghty & Miller.

The firm has invented a way to treat underground and groundwater pollutants with -- we're not joking -- molasses.

Seems that a simple molasses-based compound, injected into the ground, causes natural bacteria to feast on the tasty solution and grow rapidly.

The bacteria's metabolism consumes dissolved oxygen, nitrates and sulfates in the groundwater, which in turn causes a chemical...

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