Archive for the ‘Erosion Control’ Category

Not all polymers are created equal

Posted in Dust Control, Environmental Certification/Independent Testing, Environmental Services Industry, Erosion Control, Soil Stabilization by Bob Vitale

Simple statement I know. Just take a look at the images below. Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words! Here’s the quick story. The first image was the customer’s work done with Midwest product. This was a Midwest customer for about ten years. The second image is the same project/customer done with a competitive product this year. The customer put this out for bid, specified our product or equal, they received a lower bid price, but really did not realize what they were buying – in part because the vendor provided them with what was thought to be credible information but was in fact intended to mislead. I’ve written blogs on “Buyer Beware” and this is again another example. All the cliché’s… you get what you pay for… clearly an issue in the dust control industry. When you put a project out for bid, you must be sure you are receiving estimates/prices that not only completely match regarding the formulation of the product, but that the company you are buying from guarantees that you will be satisfied with the result.

Pad Treated with Competitor's Product

Pad Treated with Competitor's Product

Pad Treated with Competitor's Products

Pad Treated with Competitor's Products

Pad Treated with Competitor's Product

Pad Treated with Competitor's Product

Shoulder Treated with Competitor's Product

Shoulder Treated with Competitor's Product

Pad Treated with Midwest Products

Pad Treated with Midwest Products

Shoulder Treated with Midwest Products

Shoulder Treated with Midwest Products

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The Best Choices Will Not Cost, They Will Pay

Posted in Dust Control, Environmental Services Industry, Erosion Control, Soil Stabilization by Bob Vitale

ReGeneration Productions is a company whose mission is to “create educational media that communicate the ideals and practice of urban sustainability.”  Their first endeavor, Mission:Sustainable, gives a “green” makeover to individuals needing to integrate sustainable practices into their lives. In a recent blog post titled “Working soil so that soil works for us,” ReGeneration states that they believe that “sustainability comes down to knowing that each choice we make has a ‘cost.’ The true ‘cost’ is a combination of the economic, social and environmental costs set against the offsetting benefits associated with each choice we make.”   This concept has interesting value to the commercial and industrial segment of our earth community.

As stewards of clean air, clean water and human health, our mission is to help make improvements in the work processes used by industrial customers that deliver economic, social and environmental benefits that exceed the cost of those improvements.  The main areas of our work revolve around dust control, especially pm10 and pm2.5 health risks; sediment and erosion control, which pose risks to water and aquatic life; and stabilization that provides the social benefit of smooth, pothole free roadways for area residents while delivering improved business results and operating performance.

The amazing thing is that this is absolutely, positively doable today. There is so much improvement possible with the choices we make in the commercial and industrial arena while providing significant economic and social and environmental returns that we often say, “the best choices will not cost, they will pay.”

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