Rumpke & Eastman · PET to polyester
A 2024 partnership describes sorted PET packaging as Kingsport molecular-recycling feedstock.
What moves, and where?
| Connection | Material and evidence |
|---|---|
| Rumpke · colored and hard-to-recycle PET collection programme to Eastman Kingsport industrial campus · polyester recovery Transport not specified | Sorted colored and hard-to-recycle PET packaging The companies announced that Rumpke would supply this PET waste stream to Eastman molecular recycling. Partnership announced 2024; shipment evidence not retainedPublished process relationship or announced partnership. No shipment, throughput, transport mode or surveyed corridor is inferred. Unnamed or unlocated endpoints remain explicit. EastmanEastman |
Read the map with the evidence.
Each connection retains its own source period and material form. A reported industrial relationship does not establish the itinerary of an individual consumer product.
Source-reported Sodir pipeline geometries retain their published parts; other drawn connections join documented endpoints schematically.
Questions for the next step
- The collection programme is regional, not a verified source sorting plant.
- The retained point locates the Eastman industrial campus, not individual recycling equipment.
- This agreement does not prove any specific bottle’s collection, current shipment or receiving facility.
Primary sources
Evidence reviewed 2026-10-07. Publication dates below belong to the original sources.
- Eastman & Rumpke · PET feedstock partnershipEastman · 2024
Operator-published process description or dated announcement; selected factual evidence
Factual summaries with attribution; original page copyright remains with publisher - Eastman · Kingsport initial on-spec productionEastman · 2024
Operator-published process description or dated announcement; selected factual evidence
Factual summaries with attribution; original page copyright remains with publisher