(1 Feb 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 4 January 2025
1. Various of sacks full of plastic waste at a small recycling facility
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Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 2 January 2025
2. Petgas worker pouring plastic waste into machine to shred it into small pieces
3. Close of plastic shreds going into container
4. Various of Petgas worker pouring plastic caps into machine to convert them into fuel
5. Flames inside Petgas machine
6. Wide of workers operating Petgas machine and barrel with fuel
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Parraguirre Díaz, Petgas operations manager: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“(We collect) various plastics such as styrofoam, plastic caps, pet bottles… For example, the styrofoam (collected) from the beach which can’t be recycled… We crush it all and we put it in the (Petgas) reactor. We heat it and it travels through this invention. (It all travels) through the thermal converters and after the whole process, which in this plant takes approximately four hours, we get different fuels as a result.”
8. Close of Petgas worker pouring fuel into a glass made from plastic waste
9. Various of Parraguirre Díaz pouring plastic caps into box
10. Various of Petgas worker pouring plastic caps into machine to convert them into fuel
11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Carlos Parraguirre Díaz, Petgas operations manager: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“When we collect plastic waste, for every ton of plastic that we recover, we mitigate 1.5 tons of carbon during our decontamination process. Then when we convert plastic into various fuels, we use our own energy and our own fuels to power our machinery. So we’re already using our own fuel, which is lower in sulphur than traditional fuels.”
12. Wide of Parraguirre operating machine
13. Device for measuring octane inside a glass of Petgas fuel
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Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 3 January 2025
14. Delivery driver Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez arriving to get gas from Petgas
15. Parraguirre pouring Petgas fuel into Gutiérrez’s motorcycle
16. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Víctor Manuel Gutiérrez, delivery driver: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
“It’s a good project, a good project because we will be helping the planet by recycling the plastic. And it won’t be (polluting) the rivers and sea. And it would help us a lot because (plastic waste is) everywhere. It clogs sewers, the drainage.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 4 January 2025
17. Various of public workers collecting trash including plastic waste from the Mocambo beach
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Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 2 January 2025
18. Various of Petgas worker filling sack with shredded plastic waste
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Boca del Rio, Veracruz, Mexico – 4 January 2025
19. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Alexa Mendoza, biologist, Veracruz University: ++PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Recycling in general is the most available option that we have, at least as a civilization, to contribute a little bit in the face of this plastic problem. However, it is also like putting a band-aid on this problem that should be handled by different political subjects, both from the government and organizations and businesses. Only that would lead us to create a society that can grow in a sustainable way."
20. Truck with garbage collected from beach departing towards recycling plant
21. Aerial of Mocambo beach
STORYLINE:
A startup in Mexico is trying to tackle a Gulf coast city’s plastic waste problem by converting it into gasoline, diesel and other fuels.
Standing inside the plant he explains how the plastic is processed.
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