Nestlé Mexico signed an agreement with Greenback Recycling Technologies to install a chemical recycling plant capable of processing flexible plastic containers and thus address the challenge of post-consumer plastic waste, helping to promote the circular economy.

The agreement will trigger a project focused on plastic packaging that is currently not recycled, including multilayer flexible and aluminum-laminated plastics, in order to achieve compliance with technical and commercial aspects that ensure the circularity of food-grade plastics.

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Greenback will purchase plastic waste from waste collectors and use innovative microwave-induced pyrolysis technology - developed by UK chemical recycling company Enval - to transform worthless plastic packaging into a pyrolytic oil that can be used in the petrochemical industry to manufacture new products with recycled content.

Enval's technology is unique in that it also enables the recycling of aluminum from ultra-effective but hitherto non recyclable packaging.

The project will allow the circularity of an initial quantity of up to 6 thousand tons of flexible plastic packaging in the first year, with a projection of sustained growth in both volume and expansion.

The final objective is to achieve the recycling of 26 thousand tons of plastic that are currently going to the landfill.

To achieve this, Nestlé will pay Greenback a fee per ton of plastic packaging collected and recycled with Enval's technology.

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In addition, it will be investing in the adaptation to the Mexican market of the eco2Veritas Circularity Platform system, which allows complete traceability of the neutralization, recycling and payment process to waste collectors, ensuring that they are remunerated in a transparent and equitable way.

The alliance of the Swiss company with recycling technology companies is part of the objective of reducing its plastic footprint on the environment and continuing the path towards the goal of achieving a waste-free future.

In April 2021, Nestlé Mexico became the first company in the country to neutralize all the plastic equivalent of its post-consumer waste, on a voluntary basis.

With this new agreement, it reaffirms its commitment to make use of innovation and technology to move from virgin plastic to food grade recycled plastic, in line with the vision of finding effective solutions to prevent its packaging from ending up in landfills or as garbage.

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