Startech Environmental Receives Contract Increase For Recently Announced Japan Project

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Startech Environmental Receives Contract Increase

For Recently Announced Japan Project

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TO BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

Startech Environmental Receives Contract Increase

For Recently Announced Japan Project

CONNECTICUT, WILTON, May. 10 -/E-Wire/-- Startech Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: STHK), the world leader in plasma waste remediation and recycling technology, announced today that it has received a $500,000 contract increase from Eiko Systems Corporation of Japan, expanding the scope of the present contract. Startech will ship Eiko's first Plasma Converter(TM) in August to safely process hazardous ash from the burning of trash in Japan's Municipal Incinerators.

Sanyo Electric Credit Co., Ltd. And Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. are among the eminent shareholders and active participants in Eiko Systems whose President and CEO is Mr. Kiyomi Yoshimura. Eiko is a progressive environmental and "clean power" technology company with offices throughout Japan. Joseph F. Longo, President of Startech said, "In Japan, and other countries, incinerators are being phased out. However, the incinerator ash being produced is recognized as a particularly pernicious hazardous waste, as it is also in many other enlightened countries of the world. We've just completed the training of a team of Eiko engineers in our Showroom and Training Center in Bristol, Connecticut. The sale is an important first step in introducing Startech's Plasma Converter to the Japanese market this year. In addition to producing clean energy, the Plasma Converter will allow prevailing environmental standards around the world to become much safer."

About Startech Environmental Corp: Startech is an environmental equipment company whose Plasma Converter is essentially an electrochemical system that, while safely destroying wastes, even hazardous wastes, converts those materials into useful and valuable commodity products. It does this economically, efficiently, with relatively few moving parts, and without combustion. The prime mover in the Plasma Converter process is the chemical dissociation (decomposition) of the feed materials after which their elemental components (atoms) are reformed into useful commodities. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has designated materials, even if they may have once been regarded as wastes, or hazardous wastes, undergoing such a recycling process, no longer as wastes, but as "feedstocks."

For further information, contact Robert L. DeRochie, VP of Investor Relations, or see the Startech web page: http://www.startech.net

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(TM) 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, 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.

Startech Environmental Corp

http://www.startech.net

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