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The 411: Restoring Polluted Lands

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What is the use of a house if you don’t have a decent planet to put it on? – Henry David Thoreau

OUR DIFFERENCE

• Save property owners and developers significant cleanup expenses while eliminating environmental liabilities
• Innovative proprietary remediation biotechnology with proven EPA clean bill of health
• Recognition by the environmental regulatory community for setting a new standard for low impact, sustainable cleanup

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OUR STORY

Rethinking Remediation From the Ground Up  

Chris Young, founder of Biotech Restorations was born with chemistry in his blood. A third generation chemist, he launched his career straight out of college and has worked in the industry in a variety of roles ever since.   

Through the years, as industry put more and more emphasis on production and virtually zero on environmental health side-effects, Chris was consistently tasked with the challenge of cleaning up the dirty work associated with mass chemical production.

By 2001, Chris had had enough of solving problems associated with loose industry standards and decided to take matters into his own hands.

Armed with years of experience, Chris had gleaned an understanding of where the damage was being done, how it was being covered up, and what needed to happen to begin to solve the bigger problem.  The chlorination in insecticides, pesticides and other compounds was blocking the indigenous bacteria from secreting the enzymes that were needed to allow Mother Nature to de-chlorinate and breakdown these cancer-causing contaminants.

Knowing where to look, Chris and his team members were soon able to generate lab level positive results in remediating chlorinated  soil contaminants. The dedicated work continued and expanded to include remediation solutions for  a broad range of the most hazardous commercial chemicals and contaminants being commercially sold and appearing in the soil at harmful levels.  

After much trial and error, Chris was able to consistently and commercially  demonstrate efficacy of our solution in the field. He knew then that he could put together specialty baskets of proteins that mimicked those being blocked by chlorination. And he knew that these products and solutions were ready for commercialization.

When Chris and I met in 2013, I had nearly 10 years of environmental and biotech experience and had just completed a 3 year role as global head of environment for a biotech company where we were focused on cleaning up wastewater around the world. This unique perspective allowed me to quickly understand that Chris had developed something extremely special. And I also understood some of the challenges in commercializing disruptive technologies in the field of environmental management. Before formalizing a plan to join Chris and launch Biotech Restorations in its current form, I wanted to ensure that we had the answer to two key questions:

1) Could we technically, efficiently solve for these huge real world problems that were being handed down to next generations?

2) Could we also do this while saving clients significant money?

With the answer to those questions being an emphatic yes, in February we transformed Chris’ decade long proving ground effort into the commercial enterprise you see here. The demand for our solution is massive and difficult to quantify due to its sheer size and scope. 

From an environmental health perspective, the positive effects of remediating hazardous soil contaminants and reducing prolonged exposure to toxic chemicals, is expected to have far reaching implications that are beyond our current scope of measurement.

"It's a great feeling that our vocation also happens to eliminate toxic and cancer causing contaminants in soils that are in and around our everyday lives. Chris has spent several decades leading us to the point where our solution, versus moving the problem into someone else's backyard, is economically advantageous and impossible to ignore. And we're excited that 9 out of 10 millenials have mandated sustainable investing as part of their core principles."

-David Fennema, CEO

Company Highlights

• Successfully proven efficacy in the field in treating: 
  • Aldrin, chlordane, dieldrin, DDT (inc. DDD/DDE), endrin, heptachlor, hexachlorobenzene, mirex, toxaphene, PCBs, dioxins, furans
• Permitted for use by the States of California, Oregon, Arizona, Michigan, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana. 
• State of California EPA CEQA preferred remedy
• Commercially remediated PCB's in less than 12 weeks for a California public schools development, saving the customer over $600,000
• Received deed restriction free clean closure letters from the State of California EPA for multiple properties
• Permitted for use by the Florida Department of Environmental Quality

      Opportunities Pipeline Highlights

• Fully approved, imminent $280,000 of revenue for the remediation of a school site in Salinas, CA
• $100,000 Proposal outstanding for the cleanup of VOC's in the Denver Colorado area
• Late stages of negotiation for a Tampa site, where we are co-developer and our solution is used to create close to $1M of economic value
• Being vetted for bench and field trials for a large development property in Chicago that potentially translates into $5+M in revenue for the company
• Bench and field trials in development for a regional NE utility that potentially translates into more than $20M in revenue for the company
• Being vetted as a low impact green solution for the cleanup of PCB sediments in major waterways in Oregon, Michigan and Massachusetts. Revenue potential >$100M

The BioTech Restoration Product/Solution Approach

Biotech Restorations uses a methodical, scientific and analytical approach to first qualify and then plan for commercial success

• Client shares up to date property environmental data
• Data analyzed as part of the first "go/no go"
• If it's a "go", soil samples pulled and undergo specific and extensive independent lab testing to understand a comprehensive contaminant profile
• Data analyzed as part of the second "go/no go"
• If it's a go, Biotech creates a product formulation specifically tailored to address the "contaminants of concern" and designed to remediate with maximum efficiency to achieve customer and regulating body goals

This careful and methodical approach: a) reduces upfront qualified customer acquisition costs, b) dramatically increases our success rates in the field, c) aligns us fully with customer technical and economic goals.