AERT Receives Community Services Awards.

Business Editors/Environment Writers

SPRINGDALE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2003

Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq:AERTA) announced that on March 18, 2003, AERT received the Bronze Award from the Arkansas Tourism Development Foundation for its contribution to the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Project.

AERT donated materials to build a 950-foot boardwalk in the Louisiana Purchase Historic State Park -- a National Historic Landmark. The park and natural area protect and interpret the point from which land surveys of the Louisiana Purchase Territory began in 1815. Located at the intersection of Lee, Monroe and Phillips Counties, 22 miles south of Brinkley off Highway 49, the park protects 37.5 acres of headwater swamp that represents a fast-disappearing ecological setting in eastern Arkansas. A ChoiceDek(tm) boardwalk leads to the granite monument in the swamp's interior, which marks the initial point for the survey of the Louisiana Purchase Territory.

On April 2, 2003, AERT received the Friends of Family and Community Award from the Jones Center for Families in Springdale, Ark., for donating a new deck for the facility's swimming complex.

The Jones Center was established to serve the families of Northwest Arkansas. The Center, which is free to all, offers a state-of-the-art Olympic-size swimming pool, a full-size ice rink, gymnasiums, workout equipment, a computer center, meeting rooms for public groups and a wide variety of community support services. The Jones Center is located at 922 East Emma Avenue in Springdale.

"We are proud to participate in valuable community, historic and ecological projects like the Bicentennial Project and the Jones Center," said AERT Chairman Joe G. Brooks. "These projects join our growing list of high-profile, showcase decking installations around the country."