About the Microbes

Domain Archaea

The greatest difference between GBS products and those of our competitors is that our products are not made of “bacteria” but a more primitive microbe group called “Archaea”. Both are microorganisms and formerly were lumped in the same group, but these microbes have since been given their own separate id. Bacteria usually work under narrow conditions and will only work on one specific contaminant. Archaea are primitive and can tolerate much harsher environmental conditions and degrade a wider variety of hydrocarbons.

Microbes are the earth’s most primitive single celled organisms. Their basic role in life is to recycle the components of living organisms, converting them to the nutrient chemicals used by plants in photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.

Many people are familiar with micro-organisms (microbes) as they are commonly called. Microbes are found throughout the world, in soil, on water, plants, animals, rocks, and people.

After death, all living organisms decompose to their base elements of water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphate, and trace elements. This process is called bioremediation or mineralization. It takes approximately one million bacteria to recycle the 6 million organic molecules that make up life. Basically microbes were “green” before the rest of the world discovered the importance of going “green”.

Many people think of microbes as being bad and need to be destroyed.  Like many things in life there are good and bad microbes. There are a great many good and beneficial microbes in the world. Without beneficial microbes the earth would not be able to recycle many items.

These small cells also have a large surface to volume ratio allowing for a maximum cell wall activity and interchange of materials in and out of the cells. In this way, nature fabricated the total microbe population for maximum activity in recycling of all natural organic matter.