Patent 7462649 was granted and assigned to Teijin on December, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A through process comprising depolymerization reaction of used PET bottles with EG, recovering DMT by ester interchange reaction with MeOH, obtaining terephthalic acid by hydrolysis of the recovered DMT, and manufacturing a PET polymer which can be used for manufacturing PET bottles again by using the terephthalic acid.