US Patent Issued to Eastman Chemical on July 14 for "Chemical recycling of plastic dry fines" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,950, issued on July 14, was assigned to Eastman Chemical Co. (Kingsport, Tenn.).

"Chemical recycling of plastic dry fines" was invented by Bruce Roger DeBruin (Gray, Tenn.), Michael Paul Ekart (Kingsport, Tenn.), Kyle Lyn Collings (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Anne-Martine Sherbeck Jackson (Jonesborough, Tenn.), Nathan Mitchell West (Kingsport, Tenn.) and Zhufang Liu (Kingsport, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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-co...