Exhibit 4.3

                 KTI Acquires K-C Industries International, Inc.

     Guttenberg, N.J. (Sept. 22, 1997) -- KTI, Inc. (Nasdaq: KTIE) said today
that it has acquired K-C Industries International, Inc., an international
marketing and trading company specializing in secondary fiber, pulp and paper
worldwide.

     K-C was established in 1976 and is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with
offices in Lakewood, N.J., Hartford, Conn., Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Seoul
and Barcelona. The total transaction is valued at $6 million in cash and KTI
common stock. K-C's current sales volume approximates 460,000 tons per year
which equates to about $60 million of revenues.

     Martin J. Sergi, president and chief financial officer of KTI, said, "Ken
Choi, founder and CEO of K-C, and his management team have done a brilliant job
of building K-C into a worldwide force in the secondary fiber business. This
acquisition rounds out KTI's full service materials handling and processing
strategy by integrating one of the best marketing teams in the industry with
KTI's existing operational expertise in Boston, Chicago, Newark and Maine.
Furthermore, K-C broadens our marketing and distribution channels by adding to
the talents which already exist in KTI Specialty Waste, I. Zaitlin & Sons, Prins
Recycling and Manner Resins."

     KTI is an award winning environmental company engaged in integrated waste
processing and management in diversified services and markets. The company
processes over one million tons of material a year and is best known for its
expertise in the waste-to-energy sector. KTI was organized in 1983 to develop
and own waste-to-energy facilities with the dual purpose of providing a means of
disposal for non-hazardous municipal solid waste and of generating electricity
from alternative fuel sources. Since then, KTI's operations have expanded to
include the development of an integrated waste management business providing not
only municipal solid waste handling and disposal services, but also wood waste
processing, ash and municipal waste recycling, specialty waste disposal,
transportation facilitation services and transfer station operations.

     KTI operates and shares ownership in two waste-to-energy facilities in
Maine, Maine Energy Recovery Company in Biddeford and Penobscot Energy Recovery
Company, both of which convert non-hazardous solid waste from residential,
commercial and industrial sources in to electric power. KTI has developed and
operates a wood waste processing and recycling facility in Lewiston, Maine.

     KTI also holds a majority interest in America's only commercially
operational municipal waste ash recycling facility in Nashville, Tenn., a
Maryland company specializing in marketing post-industrial recycled plastics and
a Maine-based recycling company.

     For further information, contact Marty Sergi at KTI, Inc. (201) 854-7777 or
Frank N.

Hawkins, Jr./Julie Marshall, Hawk Associates, Inc. at (305) 852-2383.

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