Clean Creek Products Company of Cranbury Township, Pa is helping to recycle dissolved metals from acid mine drainage runoff by using this byproduct as pigments in pottery products.

The company manufactures and sells hand-thrown glazed pottery (the glaze using the manganese byproduct-based colorant) and also promotes the metal byproducts as raw materials to other industries.

The proceeds from these efforts are given to local watershed groups to keep streams and rivers clean from acid mine drainage in partnerships with the Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition in Butler County and the non-profit group Stream Restoration, Inc.

Other watershed cleanup projects in Pennsylvania also pioneered the recycling of dissolved metals in acid mine drainage like Iron Oxide Recovery, Inc. and the Sewickley Creek Watershed Association in Allegheny County.

Pictured in the photo are Clean Creek Products partners Betty McDevitt, Ray Nelson, Lois Hamilton, Margaret Dunn, Bob Isenberg, and Cliff Denholm.

To learn about these byproduct reuse efforts, go to the Clean Creek Products Company website.

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