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Press
Release Archives: 04/15/2004
Itronics Introduces Its Beneficial
Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water Recycling Program,
Used Successfully by the U.S. Navy, to the Cruise Ship
Industry
RENO, Nevada, April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Itronics
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ITRO; Frankfurt and Berlin
Stock Exchanges: ITG) announced today that its Beneficial
Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water Recycling Program,
which is being used successfully by the U.S. Navy, is
being offered to the cruise ship industry.
"Shipboard
photo labs are busy places. Everyone on a cruise ships
takes pictures and the convenience of having your film
or digital photos printed within 24 hours while still
on board is practically irresistible. The busier the
lab, the larger the volume of silver-bearing, used photochemical
liquids that is generated. These silver-bearing photochemical
liquids are classified as hazardous waste by the U.S.
EPA and their disposal is tightly regulated by the United
States and many other countries. Disposal of these liquids
is one of the regulatory concerns that the cruise lines
face," said Dr. John Whitney, Itronics President.
"Shipboard
photo labs can now utilize the same photochemical, silver,
and water recycling technology used by the U.S. Navy
to convert used silver-bearing photochemical liquids
to pure water and non-hazardous photochemical silver
concentrates. Itronics Metallurgical, Inc., our subsidiary,
offers a complete, environmentally friendly, program
in which 80 percent of the water is removed for re-use
on board ship to make up new photochemicals. The concentrates
are shipped to Itronics Metallurgical's recycling/fertilizer
manufacturing plant in Reno, Nevada for silver recovery,
and for recycling of the demetallized concentrates into
our high quality multinutrient liquid fertilizers, sold
under the GOLD'n GRO label," Dr. Whitney said.
The
shipboard units were developed and are manufactured
by Itronics Metallurgical. They can be viewed at the
Itronics Web site: http://www.itronics.com .
"We
understand that waste reduction and control is a major
concern for the cruise ship industry. With new regulations
being proposed covering waste disposal for cruise ships,
our Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water
Recycling Program is a step in the right direction by
eliminating this category of shipboard generated hazardous
waste," Itronics President said.
Itronics,
through its subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc.,
is the only company in the world with the technology
to extract more than 99 percent of the silver and virtually
all the other toxic heavy metals from used photoliquids
and to use this "Beneficial Use Photochemical,
Silver, and Water Recycling" technology to convert
the resulting liquids into environmentally beneficial,
chelated, multinutrient liquid fertilizer products sold
under the trademark GOLD'n GRO, animal repellent fertilizer
products under the trademark GOLD'n GRO GUARDIAN, and
5 troy ounce, 0.999 pure, Silver Nevada Miner numismatic
bars. The environmentally friendly liquid fertilizers,
which can be used for lawns and houseplants, and the
popular Silver Nevada Miner bars are available at the
Company's 'e-store' catalog at http://www.itronics.com
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Headquartered
in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is one of Nevada's leading
process technology companies and a world leader in photochemical
recycling. The Company also provides project planning
and technical services to the mining industry. Dr. John
Whitney, Itronics President, was selected as Nevada's
Inventor of the Year for 2000 and is a member of the
Inventor's Hall of Fame at the University of Nevada,
Reno. Itronics was one of five finalists for the 2001
Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Award, the most prestigious
worldwide award in chemical engineering technologies.
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OUR WEB SITE: www.itronics.com
(Statements
in this press release may constitute forward-looking
statements and are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties,
including the failure to complete successfully the development
of new or enhanced products, the Company's future capital
needs, the lack of market demand for any new or enhanced
products the Company may develop, any actions by the
Company's partners that may be adverse to the Company,
the success of competitive products, other economic
factors affecting the Company and its markets, and other
risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The actual
results may differ materially from those contained in
this press release. The Company disclaims any obligation
to update any statements in this press release.)
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