Collaboration to Recycle Mexican Post-Consumer Plastic Packaging
Selected streams from Mexico’s flexible and multilayer plastic waste, a category estimated at approximately 1.5 million tons annually, advance to testing for circular feedstock evaluation.
Canadian company Aduro Clean Technologies Inc. has announced that its collaboration with Mexican ECOCE, A.C., a non-profit civil association, has advanced the selected post-consumer flexible plastic packaging streams in Mexico. Now they are moving into a Hydrochemolytic Technology (HCT) test campaign to evaluate their conversion into liquid hydrocarbon products for downstream circular plastics applications.
The collaboration, announced in December 2025, is structured as a phased, data-driven evaluation of flexible plastic packaging collected through recovery systems in Mexico. “Phase 1 drew on ECOCE’s ongoing national feedstock mapping program, conducted for its member companies, from which the parties completed the selection of candidate material streams for the next stage of work. Led by ECOCE, the mapping identified multiple post-consumer flexible packaging streams and assessed them for estimated availability, collection routes, physical form, contamination profile, and preparation requirements. The work identified candidate streams with sufficient available volume to support an industrially relevant evaluation and with material characteristics that warrant advancement to HCT testing,” Aduro gave account.
According to the information, approximately 1.5 million tons of flexible plastic packaging are generated annually in Mexico. ECOCE’s work with leading food and beverage companies, representing more than 400 brands, would give the collaboration practical relevance to packaging value-chain priorities and the need for credible circularity options for difficult-to-recycle flexible packaging. “The objective is to build an evidence-based understanding of how selected flexible packaging streams can move through a circular value chain: from post-consumer collection and characterization, through feedstock preparation and HCT conversion, to liquid hydrocarbon products for evaluation by petrochemical and polymer value chains.” Results from the next phase would give Aduro and ECOCE the technical and economic evidence to help assess material suitability, product quality, scale-up requirements, and future commercial options for returning difficult-to-recycle flexible packaging to the plastics value chain.
(Published in GLOBAL RECYCLING Magazine 3/2026, Page 13)
