Appointment of Director

Symphony Environmental Tech. PLC
03 August 2007

3 August 2007


                    SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC

                            Appointment of Director

Symphony Environmental Technologies plc ('Symphony' or 'the Company'), the
degradable plastics and waste-to-energy Group, is pleased to announce that Mr.
Michael Stephen has accepted the Directors' invitation to join the Board as a
non-Executive Director and has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Company,
and Chairman of its subsidiaries.  He has been working alongside the Chairman
and management team since 3 April 2007 to drive improvements in the Company's
business.

Mr. Stephen (64) qualified as a Solicitor with Distinction in Company Law.  He
was later called to the Bar, and practised from chambers in London for many
years, dealing with civil cases in the High Court and Court of Appeal.  He was
elected to Parliament in 1992 and was a member of the Trade and Industry Select
Committee and the Environment Select Committee of the House of Commons.  He
served in Government as Parliamentary Private Secretary at the Ministry of
Agriculture.

He held a Harkness Fellowship in law at Stanford and Harvard Universities in the
USA, and was Deputy Legal Adviser to the British Ambassador to the United
Nations.  For six years he delivered the Evelyn Wrench Memorial Lecture on
Anglo-American Relations to the English- Speaking Union of the United States,
and was a founder-member of the Leadership Seminars at the Georgetown University
School of Foreign Service, Washington DC.

Barrie Michael Lace Stephen is the owner of 36,764 Ordinary Shares and 1,300,000
share options in the Company. During the past five years Mr. Stephen has been a
Director of Severnside International Airport Ltd. and Severnside International
Airport (Developments) Ltd. - dormant companies from which he has resigned.
There is no other information that is required to be disclosed under Schedule 2
paragraph (g) of the AIM Rules.

Michael Laurier, Chief Executive said 'We are delighted to welcome Michael
Stephen to the Board of Symphony.  His distinguished background and wide
experience will bring great strength to the Group in the future.'

Symphony Environmental Technologies
Michael Laurier, Group Chief Executive                        Tel: [phone]
Ian Bristow, Finance Director

Citigate Dewe Rogerson
Freida Moore                                                  Tel: [phone]
Ged Brumby


Further information on the Symphony Environmental Technologies Group of
companies:

SYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL LTD is a world leader in oxo-biodegradable plastics.  It
develops and supplies environmentally-responsible pro-degradant additives as
well as oxo-biodegradable plastic film, and rigid packaging products.

SYMPHONY ENERGY RESOURCES LTD. is developing innovative waste-to-energy
technology and is exploring many opportunities where there is a demand to
convert plastics, tyres and other waste streams into valuable products by cost
effective processes.

SYMPHONY PLASTICS LTD has for many years supplied a popular range of
conventional plastic bags and other plastic packaging products.

THE SYMPHONY GROUP has a diverse and growing customer base in the UK and has
successfully established itself as an international business after signing
agreements with companies in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada & USA, the
Caribbean, Chile, Colombia, France, India, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal,
South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and Qatar.  Its d2w(R) products can already
be found in more than 50 countries.


Further information on the Symphony Group can be found at
www.symphonyplastics.com and www.degradable.net





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