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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL WINS WALL STREET JOURNAL 2004 TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AWARD Company Is Honored For Developing a Recycling System That Helps Save the Environment and Produces Clean Energy WILTON, CT, June 27, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Startech Environmental Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), has won The Wall Street Journal's 2004 Technology Innovation Award in the category of "Materials and Other Base Technologies." The Awards, which honor the Best and the Brightest in a dozen categories, appeared in the November 15, 2004, edition of The Wall Street Journal. Startech was honored for developing a recycling system that uses superheated, ionized gases, known as plasma to help save the environment and produce clean energy. "Waste is a valuable, renewable resource rather than an insurmountable problem," said Joe Longo, president of Startech Environmental. "Not only does our Plasma Converter System safely and irreversibly destroy both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, the closed-loop elemental recycling system also transforms the waste into valuable commodities, such as clean energy, that can be used or sold by the customer for a profit. Materials, previously regarded as waste, when processed in our System are no longer waste, they are valuable feed-stocks." Startech's Plasma Converter is an electrically-driven system that uses an ion-charged plasma to create an arc of lightning that causes the dissociation of the molecular bonds of waste. The System, which produces temperatures in excess of 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit (three times hotter than the sun's surface), transforms carbon-based, organic materials like wood, paper and petroleum by-products into Plasma Converted Gas (PCG). This clean synthesis gas mixture rich in hydrogen can be used to make electricity, produce fresh water, heat and cool buildings and power vehicles. The Plasma Converter System melts non-organic materials, such as metals, glass, sand and rock. Resulting obsidian-like, glassy silicate compounds are valuable commodities and can be used as raw materials for the metals, construction and abrasives industries. StarCell, Startech's patented hydrogen-selective membrane filter, can be used to separate the hydrogen from the PCG. When StarCell is joined to the Plasma Converter System, one can literally throw banana peels in one end and get hydrogen out the other. StarCell Hydrogen can be used in the emerging distributed power generation markets as a low cost, pristine fuel to power automotive, stationary and portable fuel cells, as well as Internal Combustion Engine vehicles. About Startech Environmental Corp. Startech is a Waste Industry company engaged in the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing equipment known as the Plasma Converter System. The Plasma Converter System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and safety. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids, liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and other specialty wastes while converting them into useful commodity products that can include metals, surplus energy and also hydrogen for use and for sale. For further information, please visit www.startech.net CONTACT: Steve Landa (888) 807-9443 (203) 762-2499 x 7 sales@startech.net or Joseph F. Longo (888) 807-9443 (203) 210-0141 jfl@startech.net |
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