Won’t in evaporate or dissipate naturally?
After the Alaskan Valdez oil spill the conclusion and hot wash after the incident was that they probably did more harm to the environment cleaning it up than if they would have had let it chemically broken down and disapated naturally.
A similar conclusion was applied to the drilling rig
Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The DWH spill washed ashore and was absorbed naturally by the alluvial plain lessoning overall impacts.
The employment of “critters” to feed off the spill is also very important to this process.
“Won’t in evaporate or dissipate naturally?”
Back 100 years ago great quantities of oil leached out of the sand off the coast of Beaumont TX. The VOC’s evaporated and covered the beaches with tar balls.