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Startech Environmental Has Been Added to the Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index


WILTON, Conn., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Startech Environmental Corporation (OTC: STHK) (BULLETIN BOARD: STHK) , a fully reporting company, announced today that it has been added as a component to the Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index.

About Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index

The Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index is a basket of U.S.-traded small-cap alternative energy stocks. The Index provides both institutional and individual investors a gauge for tracking the day-to-day performance of small-cap alternative energy stocks. The index is designed for investors who have a long-term bullish outlook on the renewable and alternative energy market. The Ludlow Energy SmallCap Index is owned and operated by Ludlow Energy Fund, Inc., based in New York City. Additional information is available at http://www.ludlowcapital.com/indices/.

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(TM).

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)(TM).

Among the many commercial uses for PCG, it can be used to produce "green power electricity," Gas To Liquid (GTL) fuels such as ethanol, synthetic diesel fuel and other higher alcohol fuels. Hydrogen, for use and sale, can also be separated from the PCG synthesis gas mixture.

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 http://www.startech.net/ or contact Steve Landa at [phone], [phone] EXT 7 or [e-mail]

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 risks 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.

Contacts:

Joseph F. Longo, President Philip Bourdillon / Gene Heller
Startech Environmental Corp. Silverman Heller Associates
203-762-2499 310-208-2550

Website: http://www.startech.net/
Website: http://www.ludlowcapital.com/indices