Startech Environmental Commercial Plasma Converter Presented at the International Chemical Weapons Demilitarization Conference In Japan

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Startech Environmental Commercial Plasma Converter Presented at the

International Chemical Weapons Demilitarization Conference In Japan

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TO BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

Startech Environmental Commercial Plasma Converter Presented at the

International Chemical Weapons Demilitarization Conference In Japan

WILTON, CONNECTICUT, Jun. 6 -/E-Wire/-- Startech Environmental Corp. (Nasdaq: STHK), the world leader in plasma waste remediation and recycling technology, announced today that on May 24th, 2001, the Plasma Converter was presented to The International Chemical Weapons Demilitarization Conference that was held in Japan and attended by more than 250 demilitarization experts, scientists and

government officials from 20 countries around the world. The purpose of the 3- day Conference was to help decision-makers find the practical solution to the safe and irreversible demilitarization of chemical weapons located around the world. "Demilitarization" is a military term meaning destruction.

The Conference Selection Committee chose the Plasma Converter for presentation. Elisabeth French, of UXB International Corporation, with the support of Joseph S. Klimek of Startech, presented the Converter in a scientific paper to an audience of about 250 as the commercial solution for the needs of the worldwide Demil community. UXB is a Startech strategic alliance partner. UXB is one of the largest internationally recognized explosive ordnance disposal companies in the world.

Unexploded Ordnance and Explosive Ordnance refers to munitions and weapons such as landmines, rockets, bomblets, mortars, propellants and Chemical Warfare Materiel found in former land and sea war zones, firing and bombing ranges, and on military bases throughout the world. This also includes former munitions manufacturing and assembly facilities. Chemical Warfare Materiel includes nerve gas, blister agents, suffocant agents, and all of the diverse related hazardous materiel.

The Sino-Japanese Demil Program was the topic of many presentations at the Conference. Joseph S. Klimek, Startech Chief Operating Officer, invited by the Conference as a Delegate said, "Our Mobile Plasma Converter is the ideal system to safely process and irreversibly destroy the chemical weapons left by Japan in more than 120 locations throughout northeast China after World War II.

In the old days, governments produced chemical munitions never considering the fact that they might have to destroy them one day; they always thought they would use them. Some munitions are as old as World War One. The risk of auto-detonation is a real and present danger worldwide. Any property or tract of land suspected of having munitions has to be cleaned-up and made safe before it can be put into commercial or public use."

EIKO Systems Corporation, a Japanese company, was also introduced to the Assembly as the company that will have a commercial Startech Plasma Converter operating in Japan in a few months.

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.

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