Stephen Downer Correspondent [email protected] +52 (777) 326-3680 See All Staff Page Recent Stories 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.