Environmental Waste International Completes Private Placement

AJAX, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Aug. 26, 2015) - Environmental Waste International Inc. ("EWS") (TSX VENTURE:EWS) (the "Company"), a company specializing in eco-friendly systems with proven patented technology for the breakdown of organic materials, today announced that it has issued 750,000 stock options to the Board of Directors (200,000 to Bob MacBean, 350,000 to Valdis Martinsons and 100,000 each to Sam Geist and Emanuel Gerard) all with an exercise price of $0.10 per share. Employees were issued 625,000 options with an exercise price of $0.10 per share. All options vest over 3 years and expire on August 25, 2020.

The company also announced that it had cancelled 525,000 stock options with an exercise price of $0.37 that would have expired on June 16, 2016. Of these, 350,000 were held by members of the Board of Directors (100,000 each by Sam Geist and Emanuel Gerard, and 150,000 by Valdis Martinsons).

About Environmental Waste International Inc.

Environmental Waste International, Inc. specializes in eco-friendly systems for the breakdown of organic materials, including tires. EWS has spent over 15 years engineering systems that integrate the EWS patented Reverse Polymerization™ process and proprietary microwave delivery system. EWS's unique microwave technology safely processes and recycles waste tires, while creating a highly valuable commodity output for industry, including carbon black, oil and steel. Each unit is designed to be energy efficient and where possible, create an economically positive model for the recovery of various hydrocarbon oil and gases. For more information please visit, www.ewi.ca.

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