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Belgrade, MT Company, Phillips Environmental Products Capitalizes on Research

July 20, 2006 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

It’s a long road to building a stable business, but after seven years, a few chance encounters and some very special fungus, Phillips Environmental Products http://www.thepett.com/ of Belgrade has found itself selling millions of its products to buyers around the world.

Founded by the husband and wife team of Bill and Pam Phillips in 1999, Phillips Environmental Products builds environmentally friendly portable toilets that use a mix of fungi and other ingredients to first gel human waste and later help it biodegrade.

The Portable Environmental Toilets or PETTs (TM), as the company calls them, are so popular the company sold 5 million in 2005. Customers include the United Nations; FEMA, which bought millions for Katrina relief; the U.S. military, which is using them in Iraq, as well as land management agencies, backpackers, truckers and others.

Busniness News By Carol Flaherty
MSU News Service

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