PITTSBURGH -- A locally made product is offering a conveniently green solution to clean up hazardous materials.

“The basic product is called PRP (Petroleum Remediation Product), and it's a blown beeswax,” said Ray Tarasi of Universal Remediation.

The material, made from Beeswax and soy, biodegrades hydrocarbons, or in simple terms, eats oil.

On land or around water, Bio-Boom will contain oil and fuel spills.

Another product, Bio-Sok, captures and biodegrades oil and fuel that leak into a boat bilge.

“We take some diesel and put it in the water, which is what happens during a typical spill,” said Gary Dalrymple.

The RiverQuest fleet next to the Carnegie Science Center on the North Shore has been using Bio-Booms and Soks for the past two years.

“You have a tendency to have leaks on fuel lines or hydraulic lines,” said Kim Porr, captain of the RiverQuest fleet. “This Bio-Sok, what it is doing, is it's cleaning up the water that is in the bilge.”

PRP is so powerful and effective, Universal Remediation received the 2008 Hall of Fame award from NASA.

Now Tarasi is in talks with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

A February game between the Pens and San Jose Sharks was delayed when a Zamboni broke while on the ice at Mellon Arena.

Hydraulic fuel leaked onto the ice, and crews didn’t have anything with which to clean it.

However, that may soon change.

“We took a chunk of ice, heated the oil to 180 degrees, put the PRP on it immediately and scooped it up,” said Dalrymple.

Universal Remediation, Inc.