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THE PERSEVERANCE. This is the name of a garbage dump converted into a mountain of waste, in Cuautla, Morelos. It is one of those rare places where garbage counts: there they separate and use the waste; They also generate electrical energy through the capture and use of biogas. The enormous mound is the last destination for solid urban waste that has lost its usefulness in the eyes of the majority: there is no longer glass, there is almost no paper, there is very little PET and less aluminum. There is, above all, organic garbage and flexible plastics. In Mexico, according to data from the Federal Government, some 44 million tons of urban waste were thrown away, of which seven are plastics that end up in the trash . A mapping of garbage in more than 1,800 cities in 164 countries, carried out by scientists around the world, called Waste Atlas , estimates that global garbage generation reaches 1.9 billion tons per year, of which 70% ends up in garbage dumps and landfills and only 19% is recycled.

Perseverance seeks to make a change from the linear model of “Extract, produce and dispose” to the circular economy model...
Perseverance seeks to make a cha Phone Number List nge from the linear model of “Extract, produce and dispose” to the circular economy model where the concept of “waste” does not exist.
Since May 2023, Perserverancia has a high-tech neighbor: the first chemical recycling plant in Mexico, which processes post-consumer flexible plastics to convert them into pyrolytic oil — a futuristic dream and a unique milestone, since that element works to recreate food grade plastics. Using state-of-the-art recycling technology, the Greenback Recycling Technologies facility is poised to convert plastics that previously posed a recycling challenge into circular materials, while also tracing the origin of this waste. The ambitious project will allow the circularity of an initial quantity of up to 3,000 tons of flexible plastic packaging in the first year with a first module (another module is planned and the landfill can contain up to six), with a projection of sustained growth both in volume as if expanding. The ultimate goal is to recycle thousands of tons of plastic that currently go to landfill. The plant is designed to annually process the amount of flexible plastic packaging waste equivalent to the consumption of 250,000 people. Without releasing gases into the atmosphere and without consuming hardly any water, in a process that complies with European quality and environmental standards.

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Martin Reich Sapire, CEO of Greenback; Milly Betancourt de la Garza, Plant Manager and Julian Lasky Adler, Director of New Business, in an interview with WIRED en Español. VICKY REYES
The invention of a Mexican: recycle flexible plastic and transform it into pyrolysis oil and aluminum
The Mexican engineer Carlos Ludlow-Palafox was studying his doctorate in Cambridge when he invented an out-of-the-box recycling plant. His technology is at the heart of the commercial process capable of converting toothpaste tubes and cat food bags into aluminum and fuel in just three minutes . “We truly believe that chemical recycling has a crucial role to play in preventing plastic waste from ending up in our oceans and we are very excited to be part of the solution to the problem,” said Ludlow-Palafox, CEO of Enval. The technology is based, roughly speaking , on a reactor that induces microwaves to heat the waste to about 500 °C, converting the flexible plastic, which is crushed and dried, to feed a reactor. “70% of what I feed becomes pyrolytic oil and 25% becomes gas. I send this gas to an electric power generation plant, which in turn powers the microwaves that make the investment. Then, when I am already working at full capacity, the plant self-consumes its energy. I do not consume external energy. I consume the 25% that I pyrolise and it becomes gas. I am not connected, neither to CFE nor to anything. So, 95% of the energy consumed by the plant is generated with the plant's own waste," Martin Reich Sapire, general director of Greenback, explains to WIRED en Español.



Greenback recently acquired the firm Enval , the company based in Gran Brittany, developer of patented pyrolysis solution for low-density plastic packaging waste management. Using Enval™ microwave technology, transforms flexible plastics into π-Oil™ pyrolysis oil, which can be used as fully recycled content safe for the manufacture of new food packaging. As the use of electricity spreads to transportation and other oil-intensive areas, the cost of plastic could rise significantly. "It's like breaking a Lego toy into a thousand pieces randomly. What the recycling plant does is turn the molecules with seven carbons up into oil and those with seven carbons down become gas. Pyrolysis is similar to combustion, but in the absence of oxygen, then I molecularly break down what I pyrolyze,” Martin Reich Sapire explains to this magazine.