Things must have a certain order, says Aldimir Torres, president of the Anipac (National Association of Plastic Industries). As the manager refers, in the manufacture of any product, the impacts must first be measured through a life cycle analysis; Only then – he points out – should we speak of normalization.
“Once the rules are in place, then let’s regulate, and if we already regulate and the impacts have not been reduced, then let’s ban.” However, he stressed, in Mexico things are done the other way around.
According to the engineer, in the country “we prohibit, we do not have procedures, the same authority is confused with the scope of the law that came into force on January 1, there is no measurement of the impacts, they say we are going to generate tax benefits for those who reconvert, and we have this discussion: what is reconvert? “.
POST REGULATIONS
The government is already working on several standards, says the spokesman for Anipac and, in this context, emphasizes that the Plastic Industry is urged by the standard of compostables and that of reusable bags. According to the expert, an official emergency rule should be developed, which is mandatory.
“They tell us that we are lying, that we have never had contact with legislators, but we have knocked on the door and we have not been heard.”
It should be noted that, far above Brazil, Mexico is the leading producer of garbage in Latin America. However, within the 15 countries that have a 90% impact on the seas, according to data from the UN (United Nations Organization), Mexico does not appear.
FINES
According to Aldimir Torres, a fine of 168 thousand pesos for handing over a plastic bag lends itself to corruption, since it does not rule out that some official fixes “the fault” with 4 thousand pesos. “And they know what the worst is, what is happening, and the most ridiculous, not in Mexico City, happens in Tlalnepantla, in Naucalpan, they do not understand that this law is exclusive to CDMX.”
This prohibition, he explains, lends itself to blackmail. “And I continue to emphasize it, I am a person, we are an association that believes in the authorities, we are here to work with them, not against them, we are allies, not enemies, they need to include us in the dialogue tables and in the technical collaboration tables. ”.
SITUATION IN THE MARKET
On this point, the misinformation of the legislators worries. In the regulation, for example, it was overlooked that people with the least resources are the ones who recycle the most in the country.
“A shirt becomes a kitchen towel to end in slang, after passing through the four children; a cream container is used as a food container; a bucket of paint is used as a pot for water and in a pot, when it breaks; this is the sector of the population most affected ”.
The proposal of the National Association of Plastic Industries is to migrate from a linear economy to a circular one: improve the security of supply of raw materials, innovate, be more competitive, grow the national economy, generate jobs and prevent pollution from occurring.
“We don’t want the law to be reversed, we want it to be much more technical, much more responsible and much more inclusive than it has been until now.”
