Plasma is a very special form of gaseous matter that conducts electricity. Plasma is literally the raw material of the sun and the stars. Scientists tell us that plasmas make up more than 99% of all the matter in the universe. Plasma can be found in the sun and in the stars, lightning bolts, electric arcs, the aurora borealis, and even in the ordinary fluorescent lights in many offices. Plasma is sometimes referred to as the "fourth state of matter". Some have even called it "lightning in a bottle".

Plasma torches have been used in the metallurgical industry for many years, with the first plasmas being employed in the nineteenth century The Plasma Converter is an electrically driven machine that produces an intense field of radiant energy that causes the dissociation (breaking apart) of the molecular bonds of solid, liquid and gaseous compounds or materials of both hazardous and nonhazardous wastes...organic and inorganic.

The molecules of the waste material (the matter) are separated, by the action of the Plasma Converter within the vessel, into their environmental components, and then reformed into re-convertible nonhazardous commodity products ready for commercial use.

It is important to recognize that the Plasma Converter process is not a combustion or burning process, and that the system should not be confused with an incinerator or a vitrification process.

Plasma is a gas (the gas can even be ordinary air) that has been ionized (the alteration of the electrical charge of the gas) so that the gas becomes an effective electrical conductor. The plasma (electrified gas) is discharged within the chamber in a continuous arc of lightning-like energy that can produce temperatures in the range of 30,000° F and higher. When the waste materials (hazardous and nonhazardous) are confronted with the intensity of the energy within the plasma chamber, the excitation of the molecular bonds is so great that the waste materials dissociate into their elemental atom's components. The plasma chamber operates at normal atmospheric pressure very quietly and safely.