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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2021
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Bruce Roger Debruin, Gray, TN (US);
Michael Paul Ekart, Kingsport, TN (US);
Anne-Martine Sherbeck Jackson, Jonesborough, TN (US);
Nathan Mitchell West, Kingsport, TN (US);
Zhufang Liu, Kingsport, TN (US);
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Abstract
A method of recycling plastic waste by feeding a quantity of PET and PVC-containing reclaimer flake reject separated from the plastic waste to a chemical recycling facility; and depolymerizing in said chemical recycling facility at least a portion of said PET- and PVC-containing reclaimer flake reject which further comprises feeding at least a portion of the flake reject into at least one density separation stage before depolymerizing, in which a PET-enriched stream and a polyolefins-enriched stream are produced from a waste plastic stream comprising the flake reject; wherein the flake reject comprises at least 1 weight percent of PVC on a dry basis, and wherein the flake reject comprises at least 0.1 weight percent and/or not more than 20 weight percent polyolefins on a dry basis, wherein the flake reject is fed directly into a solvolysis facility within the chemical recycling facility and the solvolysis facility is a methanolysis facility.