A sustainable plastics future will require high recycling rates and the use of biogenic feedstocks, which together are catalyzing interest in replacing fossil fuel-derived, noncircular polyolefin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — While Eastman Chemical’s molecular recycling technology may have won company leaders the ears of ...

Chemical recycling of mixed polyester waste presents a monumental challenge for achieving a circular plastics economy due to material incompatibility and contamination. Now, a catalytic methanolysis ...

Commodity pricing and information service ICIS reported June 24 that Eastman, a global specialty chemicals company headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, was considering Texas City, Texas, for a new ...

Note: Eastman Chemical Company’s first “molecular recycling” facility is now fully operational in Kingsport. It uses a process called methanolysis to reduce hard-to-recycle waste plastic to its ...

Eastman, Kingsport, Tennessee, is the most recent company to announce a chemical recycling solution for end-of-life plastics. The company’s process uses methanolysis, which broadly involves treating ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn., May 21, 2024 /CSRwire/ – Pact Collective and Eastman announce they have qualified the use of clean, multicolor PET waste from Pact members and consumers as feedstock for Eastman’s ...

Eastman Chemical Co. is actively "exploring several options" for construction of yet another chemical recycling plant for PET in the United States with a price tag approaching $1 billion. News of the ...

Eastman Chemical Co.'s three announced chemical recycling plants are at three very different stages at this point. As production levels at a now-operational chemical recycling facility are expected to ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Eastman Chemical Co. has high hopes for its “methanolysis” method of recycling waste plastic into the equivalent of “virgin” plastic, but its CEO said the company has dropped ...

Pact Collective and Eastman today announce they have qualified the use of clean, multicolor PET waste from Pact members and consumers as feedstock for Eastman’s methanolysis technology. This process ...