Industrial Technology Research Institute

Ssu-Ting Lin

Chien-Wei Hsu

Ying-Chieh Lee

A method for degrading polyethylene terephthalate is provided. The method includes: providing polyethylene terephthalate material, providing a catalyst composite including a porous carrier having a pore size of 45 Å to 250 Å and a metal compound including at least one selected from a group consisting of zinc oxide, zinc hydroxide, zinc carbonate, magnesium oxide, calcium oxide, zirconium oxide, and titanium dioxide, in which the metal oxide is loaded on the porous carrier; and performing a degradation reaction, in which the polyethylene terephthalate material is reacted with the catalyst composite in the presence of an alcohol solvent.

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