Eastman’s carbon renewal technology uses plastic waste as a feedstock and converts it back to simple and versatile molecular components. This process is capable of recycling some of the most complex plastic waste, including non-polyester plastics and mixed plastics that cannot be recycled with conventional recycling technologies—meaning that with this new recycling technology, materials such as flexible packaging and plastic films, among others, can be diverted from landfills.
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Eastman’s carbon renewal technology uses plastic waste as a feedstock and converts it back to simple and versatile molecular components. This process is capable of recycling some of the most complex plastic waste, including non-polyester plastics and mixed plastics that cannot be recycled with conventional recycling technologies—meaning that with this new recycling technology, materials such as flexible packaging and plastic films, among others, can be diverted from landfills.
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By Eastman Chemical Company
Eastman’s carbon renewal technology uses plastic waste as a feedstock and converts it back to simple and versatile molecular components. This process is capable of recycling some of the most complex plastic waste, including non-polyester plastics and mixed plastics that cannot be recycled with conventional recycling technologies—meaning that with this new recycling technology, materials such as flexible packaging and plastic films, among others, can be diverted from landfills.
Why it Matters
This example of chemical recycling has the potential to expand the idea of what’s recyclable, but also to expand the idea of what recycled materials can do. Eastman’s process can take waste plastics and convert them into advanced materials that can go into durable goods, textiles and even ophthalmics (contact lenses and glasses, etc.).
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