The Polystyrene Recycling Alliance (PSRA), a North American coalition advancing scalable polystyrene (PS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS) recycling solutions, entered into a new strategic collaboration with R3vira, a Mexico City-based organization committed to community-driven polystyrene recovery across Latin America’s largest metropolitan area.
The collaboration supports PSRA’s broader mission to enable a more robust circular economy for polystyrene across North America. By investing in proven collection and processing systems, the initiative demonstrates how polystyrene can be recovered, recycled and reused when infrastructure and end markets are in place.
The partnership will enable R3vira to double the collection capacity of its innovative “peque-ruta” (micro-route) system, from 12 to 24 active pathways, increasing recovery and recycling of high-impact polystyrene (HIPS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS) by 2026.
PSRA’s investment will specifically support critical infrastructure enhancements, including densification equipment, expanded warehouse facilities and workforce development across all 16 boroughs of Mexico City, the largest city in North America. Through R3vira’s established partnership with Resirene, recovered materials will undergo complete closed-loop processing to produce FDA-approved recycled polystyrene resin for direct reintegration into new packaging applications.
Published March 2026
