Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) taken from postconsumer commercial water bottles was subjected to acid hydrolysis with HNO₃ to recover terephthalic acid (H₂TPA). The H₂TPA was submitted to mono-nitration with HNO₃/H2SO4 to produce 2-nitro-terephthalic acid (NO₂-H₂TPA) in good yield. Both compounds were well characterized by NMR (¹H; ¹³C; ¹H-¹³C HSQC). These two molecules were used as ligands for the syntheses of two new cobalt-based Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) via solvothermal methodology, in dimethylformamide (DMF) or dimethylacetamide (DMA). The MOFs Co-TPA-DMA (1) and Co-(NO₂-TPA)-DMF (2) were obtained and characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS).