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                                  NEWS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


                  KTI COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF RECYCLING PLANTS
                         IN BOSTON, CHICAGO AND NEWARK.

      Guttenberg, N. J., (November 14, 1997) -- KTI, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTIE)
announced today it has completed the acquisition of recycling plants in Boston,
Chicago and Newark. The newly acquired facilities, which will operate as KTI
Recycling, are capable of processing and marketing approximately 50,000 tons per
month of post consumer and commercial recyclables at the three state-of-the-art
high capacity plants.

      Purchased from a bankruptcy court, the plants are the former assets of
Prins Recycling Corp. The acquisition was valued at $13.6 million. At the height
of operations under the former operators, the facilities generated approximately
$50 million in annual revenue.

      KTI President and Chief Financial Officer Martin J. Sergi, said, "This
acquisition is part of our strategy of vertical integration by adding municipal
and commercial recycling programs to our comprehensive solid waste disposal
services. We expect this new operation will be a valuable contributor to KTI's
financial results."

      KTI is an award winning environmental company engaged in integrated waste
processing and management in diversified services and markets. The company
handles over two 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.

      In Maine, KTI owns and operates two waste-to-energy facilities which
convert non-hazardous solid waste from residential, commercial and industrial
sources into electric power, Maine Energy Recovery Company in Biddeford, and
Penobscot Energy Recovery Company in Orrington. KTI has developed and operates a
wood waste processing and recycling facility in Lewiston, Maine. In Telogia,
Fla., KTI operates a 14-megawatt power plant and in nearby Cairo, Ga. owns a
wood chipping plant. KTI also holds a majority interest in America's only
commercially operational municipal waste ash recycling facility in Nashville,
Tenn., owns a Maryland company specializing in marketing post-industrial
recycled plastics, a paper and metals recycling company in Biddeford, Maine and
a world wide secondary fiber marketing company based in Portland, Ore.
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      For further information, contact Marty Sergi at KTI, Inc. (201)
854-7777 or Frank N. Hawkins, Jr. or Julie Marshall at Hawk Associates, Inc.
at (305) 852-2383. Copies of KTI press releases, SEC filings, current price
quotes, stock charts, analysts' comments and other valuable information for
investors may be found on the website http://www.hawkassociates.com.