Startech Environmental Receives First Engineering Payment for Plasma Converter Facility Planned for China

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STARTECH ENVIRONMENTAL RECEIVES FIRST ENGINEERING PAYMENT FOR PLASMA CONVERTER FACILITY PLANNED FOR CHINA

WILTON, CT, July 24, 2006 --/WORLD-WIRE/-- Startech Environmental Corporation (OTC BB: STHK), a fully reporting company, announced that the it has received a $100,000 initial payment from GlobalTech Environmental Inc., the Company's distributor for the Peoples Republic of China, to start the production of the definitive installation drawings and engineering documentation for the 20,000 pound-per-day Plasma Converter System to be located in Liaoning Province, China. This initial payment is in addition to the $250,000 distributor-fee paid to the Company by GlobalTech.

Pat Quinn, GlobalTech's Chief Executive Officer, said, "GlobalTech has recently completed excellent discussions in Northern China with the newly appointed Director of the Liaoning Environmental Protection Bureau, Mr. Wang Bing Jie.

Mr. Wang said that the establishment of the new Environment Protection Park for the treatment of hazardous waste, centered around the Startech Plasma Converter System, is of the highest priority for the LEPB, and to show his full support, he has appointed a dedicated team to our Liaoning project headed by Mr. Hong, the Assistant Director of the Liaoning Environment Protection Bureau and also Mr. Xu, the President of the Liaoning Environmental Association. To assure the success of the program, the project will be managed by Mr. Hong of the LEPB."

Pat Quinn, also said, "In addition, GlobalTech has recently begun very productive discussions with senior government officials in China to establish the first-of-its-kind Startech 'Waste-To-Ethanol Facility' in China to produce fuel-grade ethanol from discarded tires, refinery tank bottoms and plastics."

Joseph F. Longo, Startech President, said, "With 20 percent of the world's population and the dynamics of rapidly developing industrialization, China has put environmental stewardship and sustainable development high on its list of priorities."

"The year 2005 was the first year of the Beijing Olympiad; it was also the key year for organizing a Green Olympics that begin two years from now. As one of the three themes of Beijing 2008 Olympics, Green Olympics means to prepare Olympic Games in accordance with the principle of sustainable development, which calls for the protection of environment, conservation of resources and maintenance of ecological balance."

"China is a very important market for the Company; one that we have had in development during the past five years."

About Startech - an Environment and Energy Company
Startech Environmental is an environment and energy 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 many of them into useful commodity products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted Gas (PCG)™.

Among the many commercial uses for PCG, it can, for example, be used to produce "green power," ethanol and other alcohol fuels, synthetic diesel fuels and also hydrogen for sale.

The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially 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.

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Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the Company's plans and expectations regarding the development and commercialization of its Plasma Converter™ technology. All forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that could cause such a difference include, without limitation, failure of the customer to obtain appropriate financing for the project, general risks associated with product development, manufacturing, rapid technological change and competition as well as other risks set forth in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

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