The company kept global single-use plastic delivery packaging at 74,073 metric tons. A shift to paper reduced plastic's presence in North American shipments, but total weight remained flat and disclosure gaps persist on product packaging and actual recyclability.
The 2026 Recycling Leaders Forum consolidated Mexico as a key player in the transition towards a circular economy in Latin America. With the new General Law on Circular Economy as the regulatory framework, the event brought together representatives from ECOCE, PETSTAR, Arca Continental, and the Monterrey Institute of Technology, who agreed that recycling has ceased to be an environmental trend to become a structural strategy for competitiveness, investment, and economic development.
A pilot promoted by the Inter-American Development Bank at Brazil's CIMVI consortium showed how digital technologies can improve waste sorting, reduce rejects and strengthen the circular economy with accurate information for decision-making.
UCLA’s STOP Methane report identified the Norte III Environmental Complex, operated by CEAMSE, as the municipal waste site with the highest observed hourly methane rate in 2025. The finding reopens the debate on landfilling, biogas and circular economy in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area.
A UCLA Samueli and Ewha Womans University team demonstrated in the laboratory an alkaline thermal treatment that can process mixed PET, PE and PP, generate hydrogen above 90% purity and fix part of the carbon as a solid mineral.
The Protos project in Cheshire has entered a new construction phase and aims to capture around 370,000 tonnes of CO2 per year from a facility that recovers energy from non-recyclable waste.
MCi Carbon’s Myrtle plant captures carbon dioxide from an Orica industrial facility in Newcastle and mineralizes it to produce carbonates and silica for use in concrete, paint, glass, plastics and coatings. Its initial scale is limited, but it opens an important discussion on industrial decarbonization and the circular economy.
The European Commission proposed changes to the Emissions Trading System, the bloc’s main climate tool, with a more gradual reduction path after 2030 and stronger support for industrial decarbonization. The debate shows that the energy transition also depends on rules, financing, competitiveness and institutional trust.