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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2021
Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN (US);
Bruce Roger Debruin, Gray, TN (US);
Michael Paul Ekart, Kingsport, TN (US);
Kyle Lyn Collings, Jonesborough, 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-containing dry fines from the plastic waste to a chemical recycling facility; and depolymerizing in the chemical recycling facility at least a portion of the PET-containing dry fines; wherein the chemical recycling facility comprises a solvolysis facility for depolymerization and the solvolysis facility is a methanolysis facility, and wherein the dry fines are recovered from a solid-liquid separator and/or dust collector in a PET reclaimer facility and/or a manufacturer of PET articles, in which dust is generated from conveying, drying, densification, centrifugation processes, and/or grinding PET-containing plastic material.