U.S. Department of Energy Selects the Eco Logic Process

Business Wire, March 18, 1996

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 18, 1996--ELI ECO LOGIC INC. (TSE:ELI)(CANADIAN DEALING NETWORK:ELII.WT.A) Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) of San Diego, California and ELI Eco Logic Inc. (ECO LOGIC) of Rockwood, Ontario announced today the selection of the ECO LOGIC Process for an award of a contract from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the treatment of hazardous wastes, radioactive mixed low level wastes (MLLWs), and energetics-explosives such as TNT, RDX, and HMX - using the ECO LOGIC Process.

The award is sponsored by the DOE Morgantown Energy Technology Centre of Morgantown, West Virginia and is coordinated with several elements of the U.S. Department of Defence (DOD).

The award is a multi-phased, multi-site, multi-year approach to addressing DOE's and DOD's stored waste inventories with a novel non-incineration technology and a focus on interagency environmental technology partnerships. The ultimate objective is to provide cost-effective solutions to the hazardous wastes, MLLWs and energetics inventories of the DOE and DOD.

"We believe that the ECO LOGIC Process represents a truly significant solution to the treatment of the DOE's and the DOD's large inventory of hazardous wastes, radioactive mixed low level wastes and energetics," said Dr. Nicholas P. Trentacoste of SAIC. "The DOE and DOD combined budgets for the remediation of these wastes annually amounts to several billions of dollars."

"This award from the DOE represents entry by ECO LOGIC into a second new major market for the ECO LOGIC Process. It complements work we are doing with the U.S. Army in the area of chemical warfare destruction," said Dr. Douglas J. Hallett, President and CEO of ECO LOGIC.

ECO LOGIC has developed and currently operates the ECO LOGIC Process at sites in Australia and Canada. The ECO LOGIC Process is a patented, mobile technology which can destroy organic wastes through gas-phase chemical reduction. The Process can separate toxic chemicals from soils, metals and other minerals, changing them into useful products. A closed-loop process, it eliminates the potential for any uncontrolled emissions often found with incinerators. The Process' mobility, cost and environmental acceptance make it a preferred method for destruction of high-strength organic waste.

CONTACT: ELI Eco Logic Inc.

Douglas J. Hallett, Ph.D., 519/856-9591

519/856-9235 (Fax)