Stephen Downer Correspondent [email protected] +52 (777) 326-3680 See All Staff Page Recent Stories State of Mexico considering single-use plastics ban Mexico's national plastics industry association, Anipac, is engaging with legislators who are planning to ban single-use plastics in one of the country's most economically active states. Mexico recycler Alcamare receives FDA approval for post-consumer PP Alcamare International Recycling Group S de RL de CV says it has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to produce food-grade recycled polypropylene. Ineos CEO Jim Ratcliffe buys stake in football club Manchester United Ineos Group Ltd. CEO Jim Ratcliffe has agreed to buy a 25 percent stake in Manchester United plc, one of the world's wealthiest soccer clubs, through a stock acquisition deal worth $1.58 billion. Lego investing $205M in Mexico expansion, adding 900 jobs Lego's manufacturing facility in Monterrey, Mexico, is already its largest production site. It is investing $205 million in an expansion and will hire another 900 workers. 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.