Stephen Downer Correspondent [email protected] +52 (777) 326-3680 See All Staff Page Recent Stories Fatal explosion at Caribbean recycler caused by methane, poor ventilation Recycling plant for laminated packaging launches in Mexico Partners in the Enval Ltd. plant aim to process 6,000 metric tons of flexible packaging in the plant's first year of operations. Alpla's new Mexico facility to double its HDPE recycling capacity in 2022 Austrian packaging giant and recycler Alpla Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co KG opened a 20-million-euro ($22.9 million) high density polyethylene recycling plant in central Mexico Nov. 10 and promptly announced it will double the facility's capacity to 66.2 million pounds a year by the second half of 2022. Braskem teams with Mexico-based recycler for food-grade resins Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. and plastics recycler Alcamare have agreed to cooperate to develop recycled food-grade resins. Mexico agrees to sweeping plastics packaging changes Mexican legislators, industrialists, retail and civic groups have signed an agreement to collect and recycle or make compostable up to 80% of all PET and 45% of all packaging plastics produced in the country by 2030.
