Why have BioBailers?
Ever since the late 80’s disposable bailers have been simply thrown away into a landfill. This represents millions of disposable bailers lying in landfills all across the country. BioBailers™ can now allow the environmental industry to sample bores with the peace of mind that the plastic trash problem is no longer being contributed to with disposable bailers. In the overall picture of the problems of plastic materials this is a small part, but using BioBailers™ will allow us, as environmental leaders to feel even better about our work and what happens to these bailers once discarded.
As people who care for the environment, it makes little sense to use a single use plastic bailer to sample and monitor the quality of our environmental water, then throw the item away to remain in a land fill for 100’s of years or more. Let’s not be solving one problem only to be creating another.
Just what are they?
BioBailers™ are standard disposable bailers used for groundwater bore sampling but with the added benefit of being biodegradable* when discarded into a landfill.
BioBailers™ are made of PVC or HDPE with a small amount of an engineered additive Ecopure™ to make them biodegradable*. PVC has higher specific density of 1.3 allowing these bailers to sink faster than HDPE bailers. Therefore weighting of PVC bailers is not necessary in most applications.
BioBailers™ have all the same characteristics you expect from Clear-View bailers:
- Easy to use
- Quality of materials
- Cleanliness
- VOC and SVOC testing to EPA 8260B and EPA 8270D
- Assurance of clear and accurate samples
- Clarity to see your sample
Plus BioBailers™ have these additional features:
- Will biodegrade away in a few years
- Will no longer add to the filling of our landfills
- Will no longer contribute to our overwhelming plastic trash problem
- Allows you to sample groundwater without making a further problem elsewhere
Other Features:
- Each BioBailer™ comes with a biodegradable* free emptying device
- Each BioBailer™ comes sealed in a biodegradable* plastic bag
- BioBailers™ are supplied in cardboard boxes made from partially recycled material
* As tested by ASTM D5511 these products have been shown to biodegrade within a few years when placed in a landfill. BioBailers™ have been tested for non-leaching using the SPLP EPA 1312 extraction process followed by analysis using EPA 8260 for volatiles and EPA 8270 for semi-volatiles. This is a long duration test of 18 hours, which greatly exceeds the expected use time of a disposable bailer.
