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Litter-Strewn Mexico Steps Up Plastic Recycling

July 16, 2005

Toluco, Mexico - Mexico has opened the first plant in Latin America to make new soft drink bottles from old ones, hoping to double its recycling of PET plastic and dent an atrocious record for dealing with household waste.

Opening the new "bottle-to-bottle" plant this week, Environment Minister Jose Luis Luege said Mexico now hoped to recycle 20 percent of the PET bottles that end up clogging landfill sites or defacing beaches, rivers and countryside.

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