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**2** 

**Recent Developments in** 

Waheed A. Al-Masry2 and Do Hyun Kim1

*3Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources* 

*2King Saud University* 

*1,3Republic of Korea 2Saudi Arabia* 

**the Chemical Recycling of PET**

Leian Bartolome1, Muhammad Imran2, Bong Gyoo Cho3,

Poly(ethylene terephthalate), more commonly known as PET in the packaging industry and generally referred to as 'polyester' in the textile industry, is an indispensable material with immense applications owing to its excellent physical and chemical properties. On the other hand, due to its increasing consumption and non-biodegradability, PET waste disposal has created serious environmental and economic concerns. Thus, management of PET waste has become an important social issue. In view of the increasing environmental awareness in the society, recycling remains the most viable option for the treatment of waste PET. Among the various methods of PET recycling (primary or 'in-plant', secondary or mechanical, tertiary or chemical, quaternary involving energy recovery), only chemical recycling conforms to the principles of sustainable development because it leads to the formation of the raw materials from which PET is originally made. Chemical recycling utilizes processes such as hydrolysis, methanolysis, glycloysis, ammonolysis and aminolysis. In a large collection of researches for the chemical recycling of PET, the primary objective is to increase the monomer yield while reducing the reaction time and/or carrying out the reaction under mild conditions. Continuous efforts of researchers have brought great improvements in the chemical recycling processes. This paper reviews methods for the chemical recycling of PET with special emphasis on glycolytic depolymerization with ethylene glycol. It covers the researches, including the works by the authors, on various processes and introduces recent developments to increase monomer yield. Processes including sub- and supercritical, catalytic, and microwave-assisted depolymerization are discussed. This paper also presents the impact of the new technologies such as nanotechnology on the future developments in

PET is a polycrystalline polyester formed from the esterification of terephthalic acid (TPA) with ethylene glycol (EG) or from the transesterification of dimethyl terephthalate (DMT)

**1. Introduction** 

the chemical recycling of PET.

**1.1 PET: Synthesis and properties** 

*1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)* 

