Plastic Consumption Grows by 7% in Chile, Driven by Mining and Agriculture

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In Chile 1,238.000 tons of plastics were consumed in 2024, which represented an increase of 7% over the previous year. The data is derived from a statistical study carried out by the Association of Plastic Industrialists (ASIPLA), which indicates that the increase was driven by the mining and agriculture industries.

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53 visits Plastics are a family of materials that supply transversally to all the productive industries of the country, for this reason, their consumption reflects year by year the pulse of the national economy. In that sense, if in 2023 we observe a decrease in the import of virgin plastic raw material product of the evident slowdown of items such as construction, this year we can see that the reactivation of mining promoted the apparent consum…