Strategic Environmental & Energy Resources, Inc. (SEER)
Completes Installation and Secures Permitting in South Florida for
its Medical Waste Treatment Technology
GOLDEN, Colo., Oct. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Paragon Waste
Solutions, LLC ("Paragon"), a SEER (OTC - SENR) Company, announced
today it has successfully completed the installation of its first
commercial solid-waste CoronaLux™ destruction system in
Broward County, Florida with a
medical waste treatment company. The Company has entered into an
exclusive licensing agreement with the customer granting it the
right to install Paragon's patent-pending systems throughout
Florida. With Paragon's
assistance, the customer received in August
2013 its "Final Permit" to install the system. As part
of the permit process, both Broward
County and the State of
Florida, Department of Health, mandated and directed
extensive testing of the technology all of which has been completed
successfully. Paragon expects the final air quality permit
from the State to be issued in the next 60 days and then commence
full commercial operations for regulated medical waste (RMW)
destruction.
SEER is currently negotiating an initial order from the customer
for multiple, larger Paragon systems to be placed in Broward County and throughout South Florida as the appropriate and necessary
permitting is received in the additional counties.
"Having received a favorable classification from the U.S. EPA,
these recent accomplishments represent another milestone in
Paragon's business strategy," said Fortunato Villamagna, Paragon's CEO.
Villamagna holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry and has been in and
around the handling, treatment and destruction of all types of
hazardous and regulated waste for over 30 years. "Paragon's core
technology, CoronaLux™, has now been demonstrated to be an
extremely clean and effective solution to treat RMW in a growing
and multi-billion dollar market where landfilling and incineration
have been the only options so far," he said. "We have
capitalized on the advantages of several accepted technologies and
eliminated the downsides of each by incorporating a truly
revolutionary application of the high-energy 'corona' given off by
a 'cold' plasma field," explained Villamagna.
"Based on independent, third-party testing results conducted at
our Florida facility in accordance
with county and state regulations, the CoronaLux™ technology
appears to be many, many times cleaner than any available
technology currently available, especially when compared to
incineration," said Villamagna. "We eliminated carbon
monoxide down to 'non detect' levels and reduced all volatile
organic compounds, or greenhouse gas emissions, to parts per
billion in an industry where such emissions are measured in tons
per year," Villamagna explained.
John Combs, CEO of SEER, explained
the Company's initial go-to-market strategy with the CoronaLux™
technology is multifaceted: "We plan to install our technology at
select hospitals, first in the U.S., enabling the hospitals to
minimize handling and completely eliminate transport, landfilling
or incineration of their medical waste; and also continue to
license and contract with strategic waste treatment affiliates
throughout the U.S. and abroad that have existing infrastructure,
permitting and expertise in the RMW space. By combining
diverse approaches, we believe we have minimized risk, established
complementary, profitable and sustainable income streams, and made
it possible to completely obviate the need to landfill or
incinerate this potentially harmful regulated medical waste.
The really good news is," Combs added, "both of these models
minimize or completely eliminate harmful emissions along the
various steps of the overall RMW treatment and disposal process;
all for the immediate and long-term benefit of the environment."
Combs concluded, "When SEER acquired this technology in its
natal stage, we set out to establish the new 'gold standard' in RMW
treatment. We believe we are well on our way to accomplishing
this objective and are already receiving multiple inquiries from
domestic and foreign medical waste groups. The CoronaLux™
system has several other applications outside of RMW and we are
targeting additional domestic and international markets into which
we can deploy this remarkable technology."
About Paragon Waste Solutions:
The Paragon system is a patent-pending, low-energy plasma
assisted pyrolytic process that makes it possible to reliably and
safely destroy hazardous, chemical, biological and regulated
medical waste; at central facilities or in-house and on-demand.
In any industry, the system safely and easily prevents or
destroys harmful emissions associated with high-temperature,
thermal processes such as incineration, pyrolysis, or high-energy
plasma.
About Strategic Environmental & Energy Resources, Inc.
Strategic Environmental & Energy Resources, Inc. is a
leading provider of products and services to the renewable energy,
oil and gas E&P, refining, and waste management industries. The
Company has three wholly-owned operating subsidiaries: REGS, LLC,
Tactical Cleaning Company, LLC, and MV Technologies, LLC; and a
majority-owned subsidiary, Paragon Waste Solutions, LLC, with its
proprietary and patent-pending CoronaLux™ emission and waste
destruction technology.
For more information about the Company visit:
www.seer-corp.com
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