12 Feb 2024 --- Eastman and Rumpke Waste & Recycling are partnering to recycle hard-to-recycle PET waste. Later this year, Rumpke will begin collecting and sorting hard-to-recycle and colored PET packaging waste, largely unaddressed in the US recycling ecosystem. The North American recycler will then provide 100% of this waste stream as feedstock to Eastman’s molecular recycling process, turning this waste stream into virgin quality polyesters.