Profile of an innovative plastics recycling company

Profile

Established as a Nevada Corporation in May 2001.

Nature of business: plastics recycling and manufacturing, technology development, licensing/joint venturing, franchising.

Vision & Mission

Nature Restorer Inc. envisions a world in which plastics play a wonderful role that enhances the standard of living for all humanity and where all plastics wastes are recovered in an environmentally sound manner, and profitably so. Our company’s mission is to seek to achieve the above vision, through:

• Educating the public at large.
• Innovating to facilitate the efficient and productive collection and recovery of plastics wastes.
• Advancing a holistic approach that will help achieve the above by 2020.

Nature Restorer Inc. hopes to then replicate this approach across the nation, North America, and around the globe with local and regional partners on every continent. If you have any interest in this matter, please let us know.

History

1987

Bitar led the team that developed the “kinetic process” for plastics recycling, initially focused on industrial scrap of rigid containers under the PARTEK Corp. (a WA company) umbrella.

1988

Moved the first plant to a larger space and opened a second plant in New Castle, Indiana.

Manufactured corrugated drain pipe from 100% recycled resin, and Submitted the products for independent lab testing that led to the USDA approving a 10% recycled contents in the drain pipe for the first time ever (06/1988).

1989

Introduced the first post-consumer automated recovery system and supplied the PCR to Owens Ill for P&G’s first multi-layer downey bottle.

Raised $0.75 mil. in Venture Capital.

Worked with the National EPA, OR-DEQ and WA-DOE on recycling the Ag Chemical containers, and this led to the triple rinse strategy that was adopted nationally for such containers.

Worked with Exxon Chemicals on proving the viability of recycling the used oil container.

Also, proved the viability of automatic color sorting for the clean recycled chips/flakes.

1990

Licensed and joint ventured with Phillips 66.

1992

Implemented the first fully automated (computer touch screen controlled) plastics recycling plant in the world for Phillips Recycling.

1993

Produced one of the best plastic lumber and shapes (as tested by the Army Corps. Of Engineers Labs.), manufactured from recycled post-consumer resin (PCR).

Mid-late ’90s

Ran a three years test (with Chevron and Graham Packaging) and proved the viability of collecting and recovering the used oil containers, and supplying the resin for the new containers’ recycled content.

1999-2005

First licensee/joint venture (ARTI – Stockton, CA) suffered from the lack of power for over 2 and a half years and then was liquidated due to the fraudulent dealings of the 51% owner/president.

2005-2008

Developed a new PET (beverage container) recovery system.

2010-Present

In 2010, Nature Restorer decided to focus on the Las Vegas/SW Nevada region for the first new model for the 21st century plastics recycling global model because of certain features that lend to a more effective implementation, monitoring, and to perfecting the model prior to launching the model throughout North America and then globally.

Nature Restorer is working diligently with Clark and Nye Counties, with the State, and with others in the private sector in order to launch the new model during 2013.