Philip Morris, the leading company in the global production and commercialization of tobacco, will invest 8 million dollars (mdd) by 2023 in Zapopan, Jalisco, to install a carbon dioxide (Co2) capture plant that will allow it to absorb up to 24 tons of dioxide carbon in the site and surrounding areas.

"When we talk about neutral carbon, we are talking about the fact that we have found the perfect equation in mathematics, that is, that a factory has achieved that what it emits has been compensated," explained Irvin Cruz, Project Engineer supervisor, Manufacturing at Philip Morris Mexico (PMM).

The captured Co2 will be transformed into different products, resulting in negative carbon emissions, as more will be absorbed than is emitted.

“Our plan is to redouble our efforts and support the development of the country through the implementation of good practices and actions aligned with our values and objectives.

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This in order to create a circular economy and help care for the environment ”, said Andrzej Dabrowski, CEO PMM.

By 2025, all Philip Morris plants in the world are expected to obtain this certification as the company began the transition to carbon neutrality in 2010, a decade later it had reduced them to 55% in direct operation spaces and 50% in the value chain.

In a world where there are one billion smokers, the tobacco company also has among its objectives, that by 2024 35% of its fleet, on a global scale, be hybrid or electric and that the electricity used in its factories is 100% clean and produces 50% less plastic in its products.

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In a country where there are 15 million smokers, the Philip Morris Mexico (PMM) plant in Zapopan, Jalisco, is the first to obtain the Carbon Neutral Declaration certificate in the American continent, and the fifth worldwide in the tobacco company.

To obtain the certificate, PMM's production plant in Jalisco underwent carbon emissions quantification tests in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol of the Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard of the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources ( Semarnat).

Philip Morris's transition to sustainability occurs amid warnings from health authorities about the harm caused by cigarettes and increasing anti-smoke and anti-tobacco measures in Mexico and the world.

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