Rumpke and Eastman join forces to expand recycling of PET waste
KINGSPORT, Tenn. and CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading North American recycler, Rumpke Waste & Recycling (Rumpke) and molecular recycling pioneer Eastman , today announced a groundbreaking partnership to help address the global plastic waste crisis.
- KINGSPORT, Tenn. and CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading North American recycler, Rumpke Waste & Recycling (Rumpke) and molecular recycling pioneer Eastman , today announced a groundbreaking partnership to help address the global plastic waste crisis.
- Later this year, Rumpke will begin collecting and sorting hard-to-recycle and colored PET packaging waste, materials that are largely unaddressed in today's recycling ecosystem and will provide 100 percent of this waste stream as feedstock to Eastman's molecular recycling process.
- Eastman will then turn this waste stream into virgin quality polyesters with its molecular recycling technology to be used across a range of packaging applications and to expand the circular economy for polyesters.
- "Rumpke and Eastman are both committed to innovative approaches to reducing plastic waste through collaboration," said Brad Lich, Eastman executive vice president and chief commercial officer.