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Mexico City urges wider use of recycled plastic in public furniture
Mexico City generates more than 12,000 tonnes of solid waste each day, as well as about 14,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste.
On October 6, the city’s Congress approved a request to expand the use of recycled plastic in benches, planters and other public furniture.
The request names the Secretariat of Works and Services and the city’s waste management agency.
It is a call to strengthen existing efforts, not a direct requirement for those agencies.
The proposal points to 100 recycled-plastic benches at the Cuemanco and Nativitas docks in Xochimilco, and recycled benches and planters at UTOPÍA Elena Poniatowska in Coyoacán.
It gives no budget, installation targets, schedule or priority locations.
The agencies are being urged to extend the approach to more public spaces, but the request does not specify what will happen next.
Mexico City’s Congress approved a call to expand the use of recycled plastic in public furniture such as park benches and planters.
The proposal asks the city’s Public Works and Services Secretariat and Waste Management Agency to expand existing efforts.
The call is not a direct obligation and sets no installation targets, budget, timetable or priority areas.
The city generates more than 12,000 tonnes of solid waste and nearly 14,000 tonnes of construction and demolition waste daily.
The proposal was put forward by PRD lawmaker Pablo Trejo Pérez and approved on October 6.
- Who
- Mexico City’s Congress approved the proposal, put forward by PRD lawmaker Pablo Trejo Pérez.
- What
- The call urges wider use of recycled plastic in public furniture, including benches and planters.
- When
- It was approved on October 6; the year is not stated.
- Where
- Mexico City, Mexico.
- Why
- The proposal aims to use recycled materials in public spaces and reduce waste and the extraction of raw materials.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Plastics must stop being waste and become a secondary raw material.
Mexico City’s Circular Economy Law was published.
Mexico City’s Congress approved Trejo Pérez’s call to expand recycled-material public furniture.
- Daily solid waste
- More than 12,000 tonnes
- Daily construction and demolition waste
- Nearly 14,000 tonnes
- Proposal author
- Pablo Trejo Pérez
- Existing installation
- 100 recycled-plastic benches at the Cuemanco and Nativitas docks in Xochimilco
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