Startech Environmental and Future Fuels Form a Strategic Alliance for the Production of Ethanol Fuel from Tires

Startech Environmental and Future Fuels Form a Strategic Alliance for the Production of Ethanol Fuel from Tires

March 15, 2006

First-of-its-kind Project to be the $84 Million Future Fuel Tires-to-Ethanol Facility in Toms River, New Jersey

    WILTON, Conn., March 15 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Startech
Environmental Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a
fully reporting company, announced today that Startech and
Future Fuels, Inc., (FFI) a subsidiary of Nuclear
Solutions, Inc., (OTC Bulletin Board: NSOL) of Washington,
D.C., have formed a Strategic Alliance Agreement to
mutually obtain contracts for waste-to-ethanol facilities
and also for FFI's own $84 million Waste-to-Ethanol
Facility to be constructed in Toms River, New Jersey.

    The Company has also received the Letter Of Intent from
FFI for FFI's purchase of a 100 ton-per-day Startech Plasma
Converter System (PCS) for installation in the
first-of-its-kind Waste-to-Ethanol Facility in Toms River,
scheduled to go on-line in late 2007.  The PCS will safely
and completely destroy the tires in its process that
results in a clean synthesis gas product called Plasma
Converted Gas (PCG)(TM).  The Plasma Converter will be
attached to the front of the FFI system.  PCG produced will
be piped directly into the FFI system to make commercial
fuel-grade ethanol for sale.  Plans also call for the Toms
River Facility expansion to include a series of additional
Startech 100 ton-per-day modular Plasma Converter Systems.

    President of FFI, Jack Young, said, "We welcome
partnering with Startech to fuse their expertise and
commercial experience in plasma processing technology with
FFI's unique business model to convert abundant waste
feedstocks into ethanol.  Where Startech provides front-end
technology to transform a variety of waste products into
syngas, FFI provides the back-end catalytic process to
convert that syngas into useful products such as ethanol,
higher alcohol fuels and synthetic fuels, like diesel,
gasoline and kerosene (jet fuel). The Strategic Alliance
between FFI and Startech will open more doors into the U.S.
ethanol market for both companies as well as to customers in
Europe, Asia and South America where Startech currently has
initiatives underway," states FFI President Jack
Young.

    Joseph F. Longo, Startech president said, "The
Startech-FFI teaming is a perfect fit that will help
increase Startech's market penetration and sales at home
and overseas.  As a result of the FFI press release on
March 13, 2006 announcing the Alliance, we have already
received lively interest from our Sales Representatives,
Distributors and potential customers in the U.S., Central
America, Australia, Asia and the European Union.  

    "We are especially pleased to know that we will be
a significant part of the new $84 million FFI Toms River
Ethanol Facility.

    "Ethanol is an important renewable fuel, derived
from ubiquitous feedstock materials previously regarded as
wastes.  When added to gasoline, it will help America move
further towards energy independence and actually reduce
greenhouse gas emissions.

    "Startech processing customers are paid for
receiving waste feed stocks at the front-end of the System
and paid for producing and selling the resulting commercial
products at the back-end.  To the many commodity products
that can be made from PCG, we have now added FFI fuel-grade
ethanol fuel.  Fuel-grade ethanol is about 199 Proof.  Two
hundred proof is 100% ethanol.  Industrial ethanol, for
paint thinners, solvents and so forth, is typically about
160 Proof.

    "An important fact sometimes overlooked is that
waste is an inexhaustible, renewable, ever-recurring
resource." 

    About Future Fuels (FFI)

    Future Fuels Inc., a subsidiary of Nuclear Solutions
Inc., is implementing its proprietary technology and
process to convert low-end carbonaceous waste materials
such as used tires, petro-waste, waste coal, wood wastes,
raw sewage, discarded corn stalks, residential waste,
industrial waste and agricultural byproducts into ethanol;
a clean renewable fuel.

    The New Jersey Economic Development Authority announced
that the resolution for the preliminary approval of $84
million tax-exempt bond financing for FFI has been fully
executed and officially adopted by the State of New Jersey.
 The tax-exempt bonds will be used for the design,
construction and start-up of the first-of-its-kind 52
million gallon-per-year waste-to-ethanol production
facility in Toms River, New Jersey.  The official
resolution approval enables FFI to proceed with the
bond-rating, underwriting, and the placement process to
secure the funds.

    FFI has the lease agreement in place to construct the
facility in Toms River and it has also secured pre-approved
state and local environmental permits to operate the new
facility.  It already has the source of feedstock, on site,
and available from its tire recycling network, suitable for
complete life cycle production of clean ethanol.

    FFI also has a 10-year contract with Eco-Energy, Inc.,
of Tennessee for Eco-Energy to purchase approximately 50
million gallons of the ethanol produced annually from FFI's
new waste-to-ethanol facility.  Eco-Energy is one of the
country's principal marketing companies in the ethanol
industry with ethanol being the largest share of its
business.

    FFI is pursuing additional sites for waste-to-ethanol
plants throughout the United States.

    For further information, please visit
http://www.nuclearsolutions.com or contact Patrick G. Herda
or Jack Young at [phone] or at
[e-mail] .

    About Ethanol

    While ethanol has been used in motor fuels in the
United States for the last century, its commercial use
began in 1978.  At that time, Congress pursued a public
policy to create a fuel-grade ethanol industry and enacted
an excise tax exemption to incentivize ethanol production
from renewable sources.  As a result, the industry grew
from virtually zero production in 1978 to a level of
approximately 4 billion gallons in 2005.  The Energy Policy
Act of 2005 establishes a schedule starting in 2006 that
requires increased ethanol consumption by refineries by 700
million gallons per year until the year 2012, at which time
the consumption will have reached 7.5 billion gallons per
year.  There are many reasons for ethanol's increased use,
including the reduction of methanol-based ether (MTBE) use
by refiners as a clean air contributor.  MTBE has the
potential of contaminating ground waters and has been
banned in New York and other states, including New Jersey
starting in 2008, thus increasing the Northeast corridor
demand for ethanol.  The present use of ethanol is as a 10%
blend in gasoline.  There are automobile industry
initiatives to increase significantly the use of E-85
engines using an 85% mix of ethanol, particularly in fleet
auto programs.  With the continued energy crisis, there are
proposals in Congress to require an ethanol mix in all
gasoline sold in the country.  

    Historically, ethanol has been made from corn crops
grown for that purpose and then purchased at market price. 
FFI will produce fuel-grade ethanol from an abundance of
readily available waste products, which it will receive at
zero-cost. Now, with the inclusion of the Plasma Converter,
FFI can even expect to be paid to receive waste feedstocks
that will be converted into ethanol.

    The worldwide market for fuel-grade ethanol is
important and growing.

    About Startech - a Waste Industry and Energy Company

    Startech Environmental is a Waste Industry and Energy
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, for example, be used to produce
"green power," alcohol 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
http://www.startech.net or contact Steve Landa at (888)
807-9443, [phone] x148 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 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:

     Patrick G. Herda or Jack Young
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]

     Steve Landa
     Tel:   [phone] or [phone] x148
     Email: [e-mail]

SOURCE  Startech Environmental Corporation