On Tuesday, October 11, 2022, Legislator Bergin presented Taran Sathish Kumar, with a proclamation for being this year’s Brookhaven National Laboratory Elementary Science Fair winner.
Taran created a project called ‘Cleaning up Oil Spills Using Natural Organic Sorbents.’ Taran’s project provides a way to make an environmentally friendly way not to waste oil. Using motor oil and natural sorbents such as orange peels, pomegranate husks, banana peels and corn cobs. Taran concluded that orange peels were the best sorbent and believes this is because the oil coated on the outside of the peel could be extracted and reused.