Mexico's Plastic Industry: New Recycling Policies Boost Economy

The head of Mexico’s leading plastic bag-making organization has said that the newly adopted recycling policies have given a boost to the poor and helped the economy. “Right now many people are collecting plastic bags and selling them and the price is going up,” said Juan Antonio Hernández, managing director of Falcon Plastics de México SA de CV. “Material is expensive but there’s more of it,” Hernández said in an interview at Plastimagen México. “Last year we were using 18 percent recycled in our black bags. Now it’s 30 percent.”