Two step process for chemically recycling plastic waste

A method for producing olefins and aromatics comprising;

• feeding a stream comprising plastics to a first pyrolysis reactor, wherein the first pyrolysis reactor comprises a mechanically or gravitationally induced moving bed;
• anaerobically pyrolyzing the stream in the first reactor at a temperature above 350° C.;
• preparing a raw, vapor product;
• wherein the temperature of the raw, vapor product exits the first reactor at a first temperature;
• passing the raw, vapor product produced in the first pyrolysis reactor, while maintaining the temperature of the vapor at a temperature that is at least as high as or within 25° C. of the first temperature, to a second reactor that comprises a fluidized bed fitted with a catalyst;
• catalytically reacting the vapor product from the pyrolysis with the catalyst in the fluidized bed reactor to form a product vapor mixture;
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• recovering olefins, or aromatics, or some combination thereof from the product vapor mixture.