New plastic recycling collection center opens in Tijuana
MND Staff
May 26, 2023
Recycling plant in Tijuana
The bottles will be compacted and dispatched to the PetStar recycling plant in Toluca, México state, where they will be transformed into food-grade resin for packaging. (Marina del Pilar/Instagram)
A new plastic collection center in Tijuana claims to champion sustainability in Mexico, but activists argue that plastic recycling is a more complicated issue than the industry makes it seem.
Corporación del Fuerte and PetStar, both part of the Mexican Coca-Cola Industry (IMCC), inaugurated the collection center on May 16. They also announced an investment of 97 million pesos (US $5.43 million) to expand plastic collection points in the Baja California cities of Ensenada and Mexicali, aiming to collect more than 543 million polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles by the end of 2023.
Plastic waste recycling
Mexico has the highest level of plastics recycling in the Americas but is looking to recycle more, thanks in part to the involvement of Coca-Cola.(Marc Newberry/Unsplash)
The bottles will be compacted and dispatched to the PetStar recycling plant in Toluca, México state, where they will be transformed into food-grade resin for packaging.
“[The plant] is the perfect example of the virtuous circle, capable of generating a spiral of benefits in our community,” said the Governor of Baja California, Marina del Pilar Ávila, during her speech at the inauguration.
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