Mexico increases in 21% the recycling of plastics
6 November 2013
The national association of plastics, Anipac, has informed that the recycling of plastics during the first 10 months of the year increased 21% in Mexico because of factors like the high cost of the prime matter and the programs of sustentabilidad that promote distinct plants.
José of the Cueto, president of Anipac, required that one of the paramount points is the saving of costs, since when recycling products of plastic uses only 20% of the power that used to create them for the first time, an incentive to the hour to recycle products like the PET, plastic bags and other flexible packagings. From the past year, the more than 300 companies affiliated to Anipac develop distinct agreements with companies for recopilar and receive the waste of the plastic, situation that has done that the recycling of this material have grown in comparison to the past year.
In this regard, of the Cueto affirmed that this industry will implement diverse programs to national level to attain that, on a long-term basis, recycle 100% of the plastic waste, situation that only will be able to attain with the support of the federal government, state and municipal, that will bring achieve the creation more than 100 one thousand employments.
Does some years so only recycled 17% of the plastic bags, then Anipac, beside Inboplast, developed a program to pipe the culture 3R's between his customers and providers: reúso, reduction and recycling, “The City of Mexico is pioneering in the recycling of the plastic bags, since after signing an agreement with the local authorities in the year 2012, attained increase until in 20% the recycling of the more than 15 million stock exchanges that employ daily”, stood out Juan Antonio Hernández, president of Inbolplast. Of agreement to data of the Autonomous National University of Mexico each stock exchange can recycle until 20 times, by what the programs that develops Anipac are a big advance to increase the recycling of plastic bags in the capital of the country and to national level.
