Carbon renewal technology is one of Eastman’s Advanced Circular Recycling technologies. Carbon renewal is a type of molecular—or advanced—recycling that gives new life to the most complex waste plastic. This process uses industrial, pre-consumer, or post-consumer scrap (such as flexible packaging, plastic films, polyester carpet fibers, and other mixed plastics) as feedstock—or input—and breaks it back down into its molecular building blocks, allowing the molecules to be reassembled to build new products. The recycled material produced by this process is indistinguishable from material made from fossil feedstocks and can be used in durables, packaging, and textiles. This allows materials to be recycled an infinite number of times—unlike mechanical recycling— with no compromise or loss of quality. Not only will this keep materials out of the landfill and in use longer, but it also has a significantly lower carbon footprint than materials created using fossil fuels. Carbon renewal can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions for syngas production by 20% to 50%.