Oil spills have long been regarded – and rightly so – as a disaster of tremendous proportions. When the occasional spill occurs, often thousands upon thousands of gallons of oil spill out into the water or over land, killing many living beings and contaminating the environment for miles around.

Over the years there have been many attempts made at developing new ways to clean up oil spills, but they have largely remained as they were, horrible disasters which do a great amount of damage to everything in their vicinity.

Until now.

Thanks to Professor Eugene Rosenberg of Tel Aviv, the world may have a great new way to clean up those oil spills: eat the oil.

No, not us – according to this story brought by our friends at Israel21c, Professor Rosenberg has discovered bacteria which literally devour oil and turn it into harmless byproducts. Thanks to Rosenberg’s efforts, a new Israeli company called BioPetroClean has developed a solution that utilizes these bacteria, turning oil spills into simply carbon dioxide and water.

Talk about a different approach. Oh, and it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than cleaning up the oil any other way.

Check out the full story here.

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