AEPCO - The Facts

The Facts

There are over 100 million active landmines in place around the world, with an additional 250 million stockpiled and another 2.5 million deployed every year.
Every 20 minutes a human is being mained or murdered by a landmine, with over one million lives lost since 1975.
It costs $3 to $30 to build a landmine and up to $1,000 to remove one.

There is a USD $33 billion market for the worldwide removal of 100 million landmines, with approximately $250 million presently spent each year by the United States government alone.

Manual mine clearance products use trained human de-miners and mine detection dogs, which are slow, expensive and risk human life.
Mechanical mine clearance products are large, armored bulldozer-type machines that are incompatible with most terrains, heavy to move, and expensive to operate.
Using the above two approaches, over $1 billion was spent on landmine removal between 1993 and 2000, with only 328 square miles made safe at a cost of over $3 million per square mile.
Adopt-A-Minefield (AAM) launched in 1999 and at USD $10 million has become the top non-governmental funder of landmine removal in six of the world's most heavily mined countries.
In six years, AAM cleared 16 million square meters of land; one RE-LEM©, costing 95% less, could have cleared the same area in under 16 months, working a 40-hour shift per week.
At the current rate of non-RE-LEM© products, it will take an estimated 1,000 years to remove the existing 100 million unexploded landmines worldwide, before taking into account the high rate of re-mining.
Other landmine removal products on the market fall short of effectively clearing minefields. US Department of Defense tests failed all 25 competing products. AEPCO's RE-LEM© was designed to overcome the shortcomings found in the test and, in 2000, passed successfully.
Once a minefield is cleared, no group has been able to stop the field from being re-mined. AEPCO's products and services solve this problem by surveying the cleared minefields with wireless technology, and providing the financial and technical support necessary to re-establish agribusiness on the cleared land.

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