CHEMICAL RECYCLING OF METAL-CONTAINING PLASTICS MIXTURES

Processes and facilities for using one or more PET-containing materials as a feedstock to a chemical recycling facility, and in particular a solvolysis facility, are provided herein. The PET-containing materials used as feedstock may comprise a quantity of PET and metal-containing reclaimer co-product. The PET and metal-containing reclaimer co-product may comprise a quantity of plastic articles, plastic flakes, and/or plastic fines, and may be derived from plastic reclaimer separation processes such as eddy current separators. Such metal-containing co-products are generally undesirable or unusable to mechanical PET recycling facilities, and typically are sent to landfills and/or incinerators. However, the processes and facilities described herein make use of the PET and other plastics present in these otherwise undesirable or unusable metal-containing co-products.