Startech Environmental Project for Puerto Rico to Produce Methanol and Synthetic Fuels from Waste Processing

Startech Environmental Project for Puerto Rico to Produce Methanol and Synthetic Fuels from Waste Processing

July 24, 2007

    WILTON, Conn., July 24 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Startech
Environmental Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a
fully reporting company, announced today that EnviroSafe
Industrial Services Corporation of Puerto Rico plans to
produce methanol and various synthetic fuels from the
wastes it will be processing in the Startech Plasma
Converter Systems in the EnviroSafe Recycling Facility in
Puerto Rico.

    Steve Landa, Startech VP, said, "The manufacturing
and production process for EnviroSafe's Converters has been
in progress, and the Company has received the scheduled
payments called for in the Contract that was previously
announced on May 24, 2007."  

    About Methanol

    Methanol, sometimes called methyl alcohol or wood
alcohol, is the simplest of all alcohols and is one of the
most ubiquitous and important of all industrial chemicals. 
It is an easily stored and transported fluid with an
international market in excess of five billion dollars per
year.  Methanol is used in the preparation of many
pharmaceutical industry products, food industry products
and as a basic building block in many chemical industry
products.  

    Methanol is the cheapest and most versatile liquid fuel
that can be made.  While more efficient than gasoline, it is
less flammable than gasoline: accidental fires can be
extinguished with water instead of spreading as a flaming
film.  When used as a fuel, it emits no sooty carbon or
sulfur compounds and is cleaner than gasoline.

    Recognizing certain limitations, diesel engines in
trucks, railroad locomotives, and ships can use methanol
for at least 85% of their total fuel.  Likewise, methanol
can even be used in automobiles such as racing cars where
performance and safety are the most important fuel
considerations.  In an accident at sea, there is no fire or
oil slick because the methanol dissolves in water.  It is
easy and safe to transport and distribute.

    About Synthetic Fuels

    Synthetic fuels, synthesis fuels or synfuels is a name
generally applied to alternative liquid fuels manufactured
from various hydrocarbon materials, even from certain
materials that may have been previously regarded as waste
products.  "Synfuels" is also a term often used
to refer to the so-called "higher alcohol fuels"
(fuels higher alcohol than methanol).

    About Startech -- The 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(TM).  

    The Plasma Converter System safely and economically
destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or lethal, and
turns most 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)(TM).

    Among the many commercial uses for PCG, is its
potential use to produce "green electrical power"
and Gas-To-Liquid (GTL) fuels such as methanol and synthetic
higher-alcohol "alternative" fuels.  Hydrogen, for
use and sale, can also be separated and recovered from the
Startech PCG synthesis gas mixture.

    The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially a
manufacturing system that also produces commodity products
from feedstocks processed that were previously regarded as
wastes. 

    Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and
non-hazardous, as valuable renewable resources.
    
    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, 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.


    For more information, please contact:

    Steve Landa 
    Startech Environmental Corporation
    Tel:   [phone] EXT 7 
    Email: [e-mail]