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To: Brandon Buttons who wrote (6184)	9/27/2000 2:53:55 AM
From: CAYMAN	Respond to of 6467

Adventure Minerals Inc. Acquires Planet Earth Recylcing Inc. Shifts Business From Mineral Exploration to Recycling Products and Services Thursday, September 21, 2000 02:46 PM LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 2000--Adventure Minerals Inc. (OTCBB:AVML) acquired Planet Earth Recycling Inc. (PERI) pursuant to a merger that closed on Sept. 19, 2000 and was effective Sept. 20, 2000. As a result of the merger, PERI shareholders received 10,000,000 restricted shares of Adventure Minerals common stock. No money or other consideration was paid in connection with the merger. Following the merger, Adventure Minerals Inc. has 20,315,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding. Planet Earth Recycling Inc. PERI was formed in November, 1999, in the State of Nevada. Planet Earth is involved with and focused on technologies, systems and services for recycling all forms of waste materials. PERI is an integrated, multi-faceted business, with the expertise and resources to provide systems, technologies and business programs to address the full range of recyclable materials, including glass, plastic, paper, cardboard, metals and particularly organic wastes such as food wastes, sewage and paper sludges, as well as manures. Concurrent with the merger, the Board of Directors of Adventure Minerals resigned and appointed three new members to the Board. The new Directors and Officers are: Don Dick, Director and Chairman; Frank Andre, President; Gary Martin, Director and Secretary; and Wayne Hansen, Director and Treasurer. Adventure Minerals Inc. will be seeking shareholder approval to change its name to Planet Earth Recycling Inc. to reflect the decision to focus the Company's business activities on recycling technologies and services. Certain statements contained herein are "forward looking statements" (as such term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995). These statements are based upon the belief of the Company's management, as well as assumptions made beyond information currently available to the Company's management. Because such "forward looking statements" are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied. Such "forward looking statements" include but are not limited to, competitive factors, general economic condition, customer relations, relationships with vendors, government supervision and regulation, product introductions and acceptance, technological changes in industry practices, and other factors discussed in filings made by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission. On Behalf of the Board of Directors of: Adventure Minerals Inc. "Frank Andre" Frank Andre President For More Information Regarding ADVENTURE MINERALS INC. OR PLANET EARTH RECYCLING INC. Please Contact: Planet Earth Recycling maintains its Head Office at: 435 Martin Street, Blaine, WA 98230 Tel: 360/332-1350 CONTACT: Planet Earth Recycling Lorriane Morin, 360/332-1350 Quote for referenced ticker symbols: AVML © 2000, Business Wire

To: Brandon Buttons who wrote (6184)	10/2/2000 1:16:02 PM
From: CAYMAN	Respond to of 6467

Thermo Tech Technologies Inc. (TTRIF) Outstanding Shares: Friday, September 29, 2000 Outstanding Shares: 1,0 1 4,5 3 3,5 4 5 Restricted Shares: 131,477,610 Float: 883,055,935 Note: O/S Tally has not changed only Restricted. FYI: Thermo Tech's Registrar and Transfer Agent Please Note New Name: Computershare Trust Company Formerly: American Securities Transfer and Trust, Inc. 12039 West Alameda Parkway Lakewood, Colorado 80228 U. S. A. Phone: 303-986-5400 Hours are 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (Mountain Standard Time) A Transfer Agent and Registrar for a publicly held company keeps a record of every outstanding stock certificate and the name of the person to whom it is registered. When stock changes hands, the transfer agent transfers the ownership of the stock from the seller's name to the buyer's name. At the end of each day, the registrar reconciles all transfer records and makes sure that the number of shares debited is equal to the number of shares credited. The transfer agent also uses the shareholder records to pay dividends and issue proxies. Change in Restricted Shares: 111,477,610 -- 5-24-00 106,477,610 -- 5-30-00 118,477,610 -- 6-9-00 125,657,610 -- 6-16-00 130,657,610 -- 6-26-00 105, 657,610 -- 6-29-00 105, 657,610 -- 7-5-00 105, 657,610 -- 7-17-00 114,657,610 -- 7-24-00 107,477,610 -- 8-2-00 107,477,610 -- 8-9-00 105,144,277 -- 8-17-00 160,144,277 -- 8-24-00 150,144,277 -- 8-31-00 150,144,277 -- 9-6-00 141,477,610 -- 9-13-00 171,477,610 -- 9-20-00 Change in Outstanding Shares: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 -- 1,014,533,545 Wednesday, September 13, 2000 -- 981,427,480 Wednesday, September 6, 2000 -- 921,331,362 Thursday, August 31, 2000 -- 921,331,362 Thursday, August 24, 2000 -- 921,331,362 Thursday, August 17, 2000 -- 866,331,362 Wednesday, August 9, 2000 -- 856,331,362 Wednesday, August 2, 2000 -- 856,331,362 Monday, July 24, 2000 -- 842,331,362 Monday, July 17, 2000 -- 789,643,087 Wednesday, July 5, 2000 -- 789,643,087 Thursday, June 29, 2000 -- 789,643,087 Monday, June 26, 2000 -- 766,214,095 Friday, June 16, 2000 -- 751,214,095 Friday, June 9, 2000 -- 727,294,143 Monday, June 5, 2000 -- 703,308,430 Tuesday, May 30, 2000 -- 687,095,097 Wednesday, May 24, 2000 -- 687,095,097 Monday, May 22, 2000 -- 677,095,097 Friday, May 12, 2000 -- 662,095,0 9 7 Thursday, May 4, 2000 -- 635,944,229 Thursday, April 27, 2000 -- 630,944,229 Wednesday, April 19, 2000 -- 590,944,229 Friday, April 14, 2000 -- 584,944,229

To: Brandon Buttons who wrote (6184)	10/4/2000 3:59:51 AM
From: CAYMAN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6467

Brandon, Remember Jim Coull? He joined Thermo Tech as Vice-President of Marketing and Development for the New England States. Wonder why he left René and Gang? {;-) Anyway, LQQK what he is doing now… There are some interesting details here concerning Mr. Coull and IBR. Regards, Cayman Food-Fertilizer Plant Scales Latest Hurdle MICHAEL HOLTZMAN, Staff Writer October 01, 2000 UXBRIDGE -- A proposed $7.5 million food-to-fertilizer manufacturing plant, based on the recycling of food scraps,has scaled its latest hurdle with state environmental officials. A joint-venture partnership of Uxbridge Food Processors LLC wants to build its first of four Massachusetts plants on a 6.2-acre industrial parcel at 79 River Road, off Quaker Highway (Route 146A) and opposite the town’s wastewater treatment plant. James M. Coull and Robert A. LaRochelle of Bio-Dynamics LLC, one of the joint-venture partners, updated their ambitious project that’s been in the pipeline since last fall when a group of professionals set up Bio-Dynamics. Based in Concord, Mass., Coull is its president. "It’s a break-through technology. It’s a blending of two technologies," said Coull, an engineer who has spent over 25 years in the food processing construction business. The Division of Solid Waste Managment, an arm of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), issued a preliminary "Determination of Need for Site Assessment (DON) permit" on Sept. 8, pending a 21-day comment period. That period ended last week. "So far we have not received any comments, but we usually wait several more days," Purna Rao, Solid Waste Management chief, said Friday. The permit -- one step in the state and and local approval process -- says the manufacturing plantmay not adversely affect the public health and environment, must meet other state, local and federal laws and the standards of various informational requests. Other specific conditions include obtaining DEP Air Quality and Industrial Waste Water Permits and limitations put on the amount of daily materials the plant can recycle and turn into two organic products: pellitized and liquid fertilizers for commercial use. "This is a huge opportunity for us," said Coull, who has lined up an affiliate of National Challenge Systems Inc. in North Vancouver, Canada, to handle the collection and transportation of food surplus and Roy F. Weston, a company world renowned for waste processing systems, for the construction, technology implementation and managing of the plant. Bio-Dynamics is not ready to reveal its financing. "There are several different financial entities very much interested in this project," LaRochelle said. "The permits are of paramount importance," Coull added. While searching for a food recycling product about two years ago, Coull said he discovered International Bio-Recovery Corp. in North Vancouver, Canada. Since 1994, the company, the other joint-venture partner, has used an advanced technology of heat-responsive microbes to convert food surplus into a natural fertilizer within 72 hours, Uxbrdrige Food Processors’s literature reports. It uses the same bacteria as simple composting, but the conversion process reaches temperatures of 170 degrees, Coull said. The key to the break-through technology, Coull said, was "putting enough air into the bio (food) masses to keep the digestion going. The more air you put in, the hotter the temperature gets," he said. "There are huge quantities of material, and nobody came up with a way to handle it," Coull said. Typically, supermarkets pay $75 to $85 a ton to transport its spoiled food and other products, which are not separated. "We’re taking the heavy part (the food products) out of the stream for less than $60 a ton." In Massachusetts, 600,000 tons of surplus food is generated each year, putting severe strains on municipal landfills. While products like paper, cardboard, glass and plastics are being recyled regularly, less than 7,000 tons of the surplus foods are composted. Bio-Dynamics identified an obvious resource for capturing its end product. "They’re enthused because we’ve solved their problem," LaRochelle said of the food users. "We’re enthused because it solves our problem. Our business is fertlizer." In addition to spending $7.5 million on a 55,000 square-foot building and cutting-edge processing equipment, the developers say the project would create 35 jobs paying an average of $35,000 and generate about $150,000 in annual taxes. They also propose working with the University of Massachusetts -- which offered high grades last spring on its evaluation of the concept and process -- and establish a related center for sustainable agriculture here. Moreover, the South Uxbridge site would serve as a model and headquarters for a process of food recycling into organic fertilizer that the newly formed corporation would showcase and develop nationally. Having informally discussed their project since the spring with several selectmen and town businessmen -- to mixed acceptance -- their goals are to issue a site plan application to the Planning Board by early next month with the hope of breaking ground before the end of the year, they said. Their aim is to be operative by the summer of 2001 after a 7-8-month construction period. The Uxbridge plant would be the first of four envisioned in the state, with others to be located north of Boston, in the Connecticut Valley near Springfield and in Boston proper. At capacity, Uxbridge Food Processors would take up to 200 wet tons a day of slurry feedstock, transport it in vaccum-sealed tanker trucks to its plant and convert it to a maximum of 20 tons of solid fertilizer, according to permit applications. Their pellitized 6-2-4 (nitrogen, phosphorous and potasium mixture) organic fertilizer would be sold mostly through a U.S./Canadian wholesale consortium that would determine where the product was shipped, Coull said. Among the key criteria Coull and LaRochelle listed for obtaining a purchase and sale agreement with Savers Cooperative Bank for the land opposite Quaker Industrial Park and the sewer treatment facility and locating the project here were: -- Being within 50 miles of major population areas, including Providence and Boston. -- Having quick access to a major highway for transportation ease that includes limited on-off access. -- Location within an industrial zone, so rezoning is not needed. -- Immediate access to the sewer treatment plant to treat 10,000 gallons a day of plant discharges. -- A distance of 22 miles to Green Airport for ease of bringing national business and government officials to the model plant/headquarters. Last December, in order to gain credibility and widespread support,Bio-Dynamics sought an analysis of its proposal from the Massachusetts Strategic Envirotechnology Partnership (STEP). Prepared by Thomas Flanagan of the University of Massachusetts/Boston, the introduction of the report completed June 9 states: "There is little doubt that there exists considerable opportunity to generate fertilizer for large-scale use from organic wastes through composting and other innovative treatments, such as the one reviewed in this report." In the area of odor control -- which company officials admit will be its strongest roadblock among citizen and municipal critics -- STEP offers encouraging analysis. "The primary odor control system will be total facility containment wherein air is forced through a biofilter," the report says. "STEP’s comparison of biofilter designs indicates that biofilter can effectively manage even exceptionally challenging odors." Bio-Dynamics said they expect their state Determination of Need (DON) permit could be issued as early as this week, putting in motion other permit applications and financing of the project. The DEP also must approve what’s called a Financial Assurance Mechanism at least 30 days before the plant would begin operating. End of Editorial