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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL APPOINTS DISTRIBUTOR FOR ITALY

WILTON, CT, July 6, 2006 --WORLD-WIRE/--
Startech Environmental Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting company, announced today that it has appointed COGIM SpA of Via Riscassi n.8, San Nicolò di Rottofreno, 29010 Piacenza-Italy and Via Principessa Clotilde, 7, 00196 Roma as the exclusive Startech distributor for the Italian Republic.

Giuseppe Fazio, Sales Manager, said, "We have made excellent progress developing the Startech market in Italy during the past year. The introduction of Startech Plasma Converter Systems into the COGIM capability will permit COGIM to provide these systems to industry and clients enabling them to meet their legal obligations to reduce the destructive impact of waste on the environment.

"There is also a great interest here in alternative sources of energy especially in using the Plasma Converted Gas to produce fuel-grade ethanol.

Our new Sales and Technical Center in Piacenza is also in a good location to help support Startech sales in the rest of Europe."

For further information:
CONTACT:
Giuseppe Fazio
info@cogim.it
giuseppefazio@comeco2.it
phone +39.0523.767811
fax +39.0523.763105

About COGIM
COGIM SpA is an International, Multi-disciplined Services Company and General Contractor registered in Italy. The company specializes in the provision of turnkey pre-engineered modular-accommodation solutions and services particularly to the construction, oil and gas industries, plus disaster relief, exploration and military and government installations. The COGIM capability includes: professional services, design, manufacture, construction management and all logistics and services in support of project delivery and operations. The provision and management of water and all waste disposal utilities are a major component of COGIM's services.

About Startech - a Waste Industry and Energy Company
Startech Environmental is a Waste Industry and Energy company producing and selling 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 many of them into useful commodity products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)™. Some of the many commercial uses for PCG include the production of "green" electrical power, ethanol and also hydrogen for sale.

The Startech Plasma Converter is also a manufacturing system producing commodity products from feedstocks that were previously regarded as wastes. Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable renewable resources.

For further information, please visit www.startech.net
CONTACT:
Steve Landa
(888) 807-9443
(203) 762-2499 x 7
sales@startech.net

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