Coca-Cola Femsa, in collaboration with ALPLA, began the construction of a recycling plant in Tabasco, to which it will allocate an investment of more than 60 million dollars.

The project, installed in the Tabasco Business Center (TBC) Industrial Park in the municipality of Cunduacán, is expected to generate around 20,000 direct and indirect jobs.

The facilities will have the capacity to process 50,000 tons of post-consumer PET bottles per year. In addition to up to 35 thousand tons of food grade recycled material, ready to be reused.

"This will allow Coca Cola Femsa to achieve the goal of integrating 50% of its recycled PET resin into its bottles and packaging," said John Santa María Otazua, CEO of the Mexican multinational.

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For his part, José Friedrich García Mallitz, head of the Secretariat for Economic Development and Competitiveness (Sedec), announced that the new recycling plant in Tabasco includes the installation of 18 new collection centers for PET material.

These will be distributed in the southeast of Mexico, considered the region with the greatest potential for solid waste recycling.

He also said that the plant, called New Ecology of Tabasco "Planeta", is assembled in the context of the railway development of Estación Chontalpa-Dos Bocas.

Said infrastructure is a boost to the logistics vocation of the entity. This in order to move from an economy focused on the energy sector, to a diversified one that "detonates the industry and resumes our natural vocations," said García Mallitz.

In this sense, he stressed that the entity continues to be the logistics leader in this area of the country, since it has 54 distribution centers established in its territory.

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According to the National Association of Plastic Industries (Anipac), in 2021 one million 913 thousand tons of plastic waste were recycled in Mexico, thus being one

of the main countries in promoting the circular economy in Latin America.

This concept seeks to maintain the value of products, materials and resources for as long as possible and minimize waste.

In Mexico there are 363 companies dedicated to the recycling of products, 16% in the category of large plants, with more than 101 workers.

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