Itronics President Dr. John Whitney to Serve as Panelist at Prestigious Resource Recovery Conference

RENO, NV--(Marketwire - Sep 19, 2011) - Itronics Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ITRO) is pleased to announce that Dr. John Whitney, its founder and President, will serve as a panelist at the prestigious resource recovery and waste management conference sponsored by The Envirobiz Group (www.envirobiz.com) at the Kona Kai Resort, San Diego, Ca., Sept. 19-23.

The conference annually works to stimulate creative thinking on strategies for waste management and resource recovery, facilitates the exchange of information between key executives in these sectors and allows executives to renew or establish new business relationships.

Dr. Whitney will serve on panels discussing the challenges and successes for resource recovery partnerships, recovering the constituents from aqueous solutions, and the challenges and opportunities facing the resource recovery and waste management industries.

"This is an excellent opportunity for Itronics to meet top executives from all different types of commercial resource recovery and hazardous waste management services companies. It is an excellent forum to tell the Itronics story," said Dr. Whitney.

About Itronics
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is a "Creative Clean Technology" company. Itronics, through its subsidiary, Itronics Metallurgical, Inc. is the only Company with a fully permitted "Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water Recycling" plant in the United States that converts used photoliquids into pure silver and GOLD'n GRO liquid fertilizers. The Company is developing environmentally compatible mining technology, provides project planning and technical services to the gold mining industry, and operates the popular InsideMetals.com web site, http://www.insidemetals.com, which provides a value-added WORLD VIEW of Gold Producer Stocks, Mineral Producer Stocks, Junior Gold Stocks, and Junior Mineral Stocks.

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