The invention belongs to the technical field of regenerated
polyester, and particularly relates to a waste cotton-
polyester blended fabric recycling method which comprises the following steps: firstly, decolorizing a
colored waste cotton-
polyester blended fabric by adopting a decolorizing agent, then mixing a depolymerizing agent,
isosorbide dimethyl ether, a first catalyst and the decolorized cotton-polyester blended fabric, and then carrying out
depolymerization reaction, the decolorizing agent and the depolymerizing agent are more than one of
dimethyl carbonate,
diethyl carbonate and methyl
ethyl carbonate, and the temperature of the depolymerizing reaction is 130-150 DEG C; washing the separated cotton fibers with water, and screening to remove residual polyester
powder on the surfaces; firstly, terephthalate is converted into DMT, and then DMT,
ethylene glycol, a second catalyst and a functional additive are subjected to a repolymerization reaction to obtain regenerated
polyethylene glycol terephthalate. According to the method,
depolymerization and polyester cotton separation processes are ingeniously fused, so that the operation steps are simplified, the
energy consumption is reduced, and the purity of a
depolymerization product is also improved.