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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 a PET-containing reclaimer colored plastic-containing mixture and/or MRF colored plastic-containing mixture separated from the plastic waste to a chemical recycling facility; and depolymerizing in the chemical recycling facility at least a portion of the PET-containing reclaimer colored plastic-containing mixture and/or MRF colored plastic-containing mixture, and further feeding at least a portion of the quantity of colored plastic-containing mixture to at least one density separation stage before depolymerizing, thereby producing a PET-enriched stream that is fed into a solvolysis facility within the chemical recycling facility, and wherein the solvolysis facility is a methanolysis facility.