The new chemical recycling plant, which will help minimise post-consumer plastic waste, is expected to process up to 6,000 tonnes of flexible plastic packaging in the first year
Nestlé, Greenback and Enval have collaborated to build chemical recycling facility in Mexico. (Credit: Greenback Recycling Technologies Ltd.)
Nestlé Mexico has entered into an agreement with the UK-based Greenback Recycling Technologies to build a new chemical recycling facility in Mexico.
Designed to process flexible plastic packaging, the new facility will help minimise post-consumer plastic waste that is difficult to recycle in the country.
Enval, a UK-based chemical recycling firm, has agreed to provide its microwave-induced pyrolysis technology to install at the new plant for the conversion of valueless plastic packaging into pyrolysis oil.
The pyrolysis oil is suitable for use in the petrochemical industry to produce new products with post-consumer recycled content.
The new recycling plant is expected to process up to 6,000 tonnes of flexible plastic packaging in the first year.
Nestlé will also invest to adapt to the Mexican waste ecosystem and market the Greenback’s eco2Veritas Circularity Platform, which enables complete traceability of the neutralisation and recycling process.
Nestlé Mexico CEO Fausto Costa said: “Making safe recycled plastics for food packaging is a huge challenge for our industry. Therefore, in addition to minimising the use of plastics and collecting waste, we want to close the loop and make more plastics infinitely recyclable.
“This project with Greenback and Enval fully supports the mission of ensuring that our plastic packaging is not only recyclable, but actually recycled; it ensures that we are drastically reducing plastic waste pollution and supports our work with local communities.”
Nestlé’s partnership with recycling technology companies is part of the firm’s strategy to reduce its plastic footprint in the environment and meet the goal of achieving a waste-free future.
In April this year, Nestlé Mexico is said to become the first company in the country to neutralise all the equivalent plastic from its post-consumer waste voluntarily.