AERT adds Dr. Jim Culp as Outside Director.

SPRINGDALE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1996--Advanced Environmental Recycling Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AERTA, AERTZ) announced today that Dr. Jim Culp was elected to serve on AERT's Board of Directors on August 28, 1996 as an Outside Director specializing in technology. Dr. Culp has been working with AERT, Inc. for six years while he was employed at The Dow Chemical Company. He will be a strong and positive addition for AERT as we move forward, and we are honored to have Dr. Culp join our team: states AERT President, Joe G. Brooks. Some of his work history includes:

After receiving a BS degree from the University of Alabama and a Ph.D. degree from Texas A&M University, James H. Culp taught Chemical Oceanography for two years at Texas A&M University. Then, Culp joined The Dow Chemical Company in Research, developing analytical instrumentation and an Activated Sludge process for degrading organic waste water. He spent twelve years in manufacturing plants as an engineer, superintendent, and major manager responsible for four plants, and spent eight years in Business Development and Supply Chain as Dow's West Coast Business Development Manager and as Dow's North American Engineering Plastics Supply Chain Director before taking early retirement from Dow. Dr. Culp started up and led Dow's Recycle Plastics Manufacturing and Development Department for five years. Dr. Culp is a member of American Production and Inventory Control Society, American Chemical Society, Stephen Covey's Seven Habits Facilitators, and American Recycle Plastics Association. Culp is married to Dixie B. Culp and they have two grown children.

CONTACT: AERT, Inc.

Joe G. Brooks, 915/446-3430