Eastman To Recycle Discarded Carpet Into New Materials

Kingsport’s Eastman Chemical Company has reached an agreement to give new life to one of the most problematic waste materials in landfills. Post-consumer carpet will now be recycled through Eastman’s newly announced carbon renewal technology and converted into materials to serve new and useful purposes. The huge chemical manufacturer has partnered with Circular Polymers, a company that reclaims post-consumer waste products for recycling and will divert millions of pounds of carpet from landfills in the first year of the operation.