 Love to welcome everybody back to the channel here. This will close out the 2022 campaign here for Aduro Clean Technologies, who's engaged with the Independent Investor Channel to provide awareness and profiling services to let people in on what I feel like is one of the best kept secrets. Aduro has compensated me for my time and efforts. Those disclaimers are made available to you in their entirety in the description below. But as we close out 2022, I want you to truly understand what I feel like is my conviction by for 2023 hands down no doubt about it. I believe Aduro is farthest away from the market volatility right now, having held up quite well actually ending 2022 slightly up, which in the face of volatile markets is an accomplishment in and of itself. I think it speaks to the resiliency of this company and with many of the catalyst being announced in 2022 to come into fruition in 2023. I think it's fairly unfortunate to understand that Aduro was subjected to such poor market activity, whereas in more conducive markets, I think the news wouldn't have fallen on deaf ears. And I think Aduro would have enjoyed some appreciation as appropriate for the magnitude and the acknowledgement of how big those announcements were in the evolution of this young company. For you guys that don't know, Aduro clean technology is looking to solve the plastic problem. And the plastic problem for you guys that have been sleeping under a rock for the last three decades has exacerbated to the point of no return. And the solutions that are available now on the marketplace do vary. And they are very widespread in their efficiencies. Pyrolysis is the main means that these large companies are using right now. And the problem with pyrolysis is the heat input and the cost to that input, which makes it kind of a wash wash in that they are able to achieve in fairly low efficiency numbers close to 60% of recovery on their feedstock that they're taking in by adding high levels of heat to basically deconstruct the molecules in their specific reactors and how they're applying this heat to the feedstock and breaking down the molecules in a destructive manner. Aduro clean technologies takes a different approach with their intellectual property and their patent protected approach here through their hydrochemaletic approach is a much lower heat input and much more aims to take the hard to recycle plastics, which has been primarily those feedstocks that are made of polypropylene, polyethylene and polystyrene. You need to learn yourself up on this because Aduro is more of a story at this point. It is an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a company that has the technology and the technology it works. It's been third party verified by a lab that Aduro contracted to actually ground truth their technology. This hydrochemaletic is real and it works and we just had another double down of validation in 2022 with Aduro clean technology being accepted to the Shell Game Changer program, which is an accelerator program looking to bring technologies like Aduro under the fold and get them to commercialization. Why? Why is that such an interesting proposition now? Because the plastic problem that I discussed at the top of the video is very real and we're being consumed in plastic. Just take a step back and think about how plastics dominate our day and they play into every aspect of our life. They're used in packaging our children's medicines. They're used in packaging our bottled water. They're used in all types of packaging that we use and consume and discard. Up until finding the Aduro clean technology's opportunity and what these guys are trying to do, my naive understanding of how bad we are at recycling plastics to the tune of about 91% of all plastics that go into the recycling bin or wherever it goes when you leave your household ends up in either the oceans or the landfills. They do not go to what we are all driving toward and that is a cyclical economy. I'm going to talk about that in just a moment and how Aduro is critical to making sure that we can increase our success rate, which is not a success at all. Only being able to recycle 9% of the plastics and a lot of those plastics or those plastics out there that are actually easy in the cycle and economically conducive to actually recycling the tough stuff and especially the contaminated plastics. When you use your tide bottle and you take that out of the laundry and it's done dispensing its chemical detergent, that goes also in and it's very difficult to process those materials through feedstock, especially when you're looking to mix those materials together and expect to have a predictable product on the back end after this feedstock is fed into a reactor of sort. Now the important advancement that Aduro has made here in 2022 is to announce that there are two reactor is finalized and it will be brought to assist in customer engagement. Imagine the opportunity to actually see this ability of a reactor to actually take in feedstock and produce a product on the back end. Now by adjusting the chemistry in this reactor they can actually impact and monitor not only the quality of the feedstock but actually change the parameters, the heat, the input to the treatment of what they're doing to actually impact the actual product that they're making on the back end. Now what this allows Aduro to do and what it more importantly allows them to do is boast to the consumer that they can actually take and upcycle their feedstock into more desirable products. Once these molecules are broken down in a way that gives them a slurry for the lack of better terms that they can use to actually create more plastic product that only with every new piece of plastic generated by the use of this technology that Aduro brings is one less piece of plastic that could end up in the oceans, one less piece of plastic that could end up in our landfills but more importantly it helps to supplement or helps to really evolve this secular economy where our plastics don't just go to degrade, they don't just go to deteriorate in the landfills, they don't just deteriorate to end up in our water tables and the very soil that we're looking to plant our food in. Guys this is something that is incredibly important and in this economy where people are taking more sensitivity to the impacts that we have on the environment both with carbon emissions, with our carbon footprint, with reducing our carbon emissions and keeping track of our ESG scores within companies it only begs the question of when we are going to be able to look at this plastic problem and identify that we are actually solving the plastic problem that is the key here guys and it's going to take many many years for the problem to be identified as being solved because right now with the creation of the plastics that we're creating every single year which runs in between around 350 million tons of plastic upwards of statistics that I've seen of 400 million tons of plastic it begs the question when are we going to address this issue in a serious manner okay now there are geo political and countries that are coming together on a geopolitical common forum and actually looking to establish mandates that make sure that by 2025 the companies that are producing plastic are taking an onus on the new plastics that are created 25 percent to be exact exact on any new plastic that's actually put out into the marketplace has to be able to be proven to be able to be entered into the secular economy that I speak of now a duro clean technology is a cut above the competition currently when I talked about the paralysis and the high heat and high energy input the efficiencies of those processes just are not there guys we have many companies out there that are and have been awarded massive valuations in this space from 750 million all the way up to one to dare I suggest two billion dollars in this industry that is on the very inception of bringing solutions to bear and having those solutions put to the proof test and understanding which solutions are going to get us to that circular economy as quickly as we can a duro clean technology is a cut above it's the number one technology that's brought to bear there's going to be people out there that are going to disagree there's going to be people out there who say that they have the best solution or they have this and that and this and that for whatever reason what you have to look at is the low energy input that energy that a duro brings to bear number one so the cost of actually running the solution is key number two the efficiency of the system you have to look at how efficient the technology as it works against the plastic and the very complex chemical molecules that make up these high high hard to break down plastics that have been historically impossible to break down and how efficient they are in actually breaking down this these chemicals now a duro clean technology sports is an efficiency rate of up over 90 percent of recovery guys this is incredible the loss a little bit of loss with the with the little bit of ash that comes out of the process is to be expected but a duro to be able to support and and sport a 90 percent recovery rate with their technology only speaks to my conviction going into 2023 how it's at least one to put on your watch list and monitor this story going forward a duro has had two capital raises in 2022 one in the tune of 1.4 million the last one with the issuance of some stock and some units through their warrant program of 1.1 million this company's well capitalized with zero debt as well as an internal share ownership of close to 50 so if you want to be in that latter half of share ownership right alongside with institutions i suggest you take a look at this opportunity closing down 2022 at what i feel like is a prolonged recessed stock price only being provided to those would be share owners in the company that are identifying this opportunity early and often and made possible by a stock market where very little if any companies at all especially the speculative micro cap space is getting any type of favor whatsoever and so for 2022 for a duro clean technologies to exit 2022 with an actual positive gain is a testament to how strong this company looks and is poised to make big waves in 2023 as we close out this year and keep an eye on the amazing technology and the advancements of the duro clean technology as they look to take the R2 to the customers in their engagement looking to walk the path in the game changer program the accelerated program with shell oil as well as how they look to leverage their capital and put that capital to work in the newly renovated duro clean technologies headquarters in Canada very exciting times for this young company it's going to be fantastic to see them leverage with their current relationships and the relationships they have with the universities and the talent pool that can be drawn on because this is not just an a duro problem this is not just a few companies that are working on this problem now guys this is a global crisis and for the few companies like a duro clean technologies and others that are putting their solutions forward to the rigor of understanding how cost effective it can be and how efficient those technologies can be it's going to be exciting to see which one wins out and which one actually can boast the technology that can actually say we've solved the plastic problem going into 2023 and beyond the time is now the time is serious the problem has never been so big as it is in 2022 we have turned a blind eye to this problem long enough and a duro clean technology is stepping forward with their advanced hydrochemical technology and actually has the solution to bring to bear to solve the plastic problem guys i'd appreciate it if you leave your comments at the bottom hit the thumbs up button for me subscribe to the channel if you enjoy content like this we will continue to cover this story intimately as it is my number one conviction pick for 2023 guys thank you so much for tuning into the message and good luck in your investment future