If you produce or import
Circular design where viable, a Circular Management Plan, and registration in the Circular Economy Registry, with targets and indicators by sector.
Circular economy
Your waste is now a legal matter, and a margin matter.
What the General Law on the Circular Economy requires, who it applies to, and what your company can do starting this quarter.
First, the data: what leaves your plant, how much, where it goes and what it costs. That is what decides what gets recovered, what gets sold and what gets reported.
19.01.26publication of the General Law on the Circular Economy in the Official Gazette
The law, on one page
Published in the Official Gazette19 January 2026
In force since20 January 2026
Targets and indicatorsby sector
Implementing rulesstill pending
The law reformed the LGEEPA and the General Law on the Prevention and Management of Waste, and creates the National Circular Economy System, chaired by SEMARNAT. Its implementing rules were due within the following 180 days and industry was still waiting for them at the end of October 2026. You do not need to wait for them to sort out your waste: what you measure today is just as useful tomorrow.
What it requires, by your role
If you generate waste
Source separation, responsible handling and recovery. You are not asked for your own registry entry, but you must be able to prove what you did with each waste stream.
If you seek a large customer or credit
Traceability and evidence: what leaves your plant, how much, where it goes and who receives it. That is what the OEM, the bank and the fund ask.
We do not give legal advice: we prepare the data and the engineering that your lawyer or your environmental consultant signs.
Where the money is
Circularity is not an environmental report: it is material you stop buying, waste you stop paying to dispose of, and products worth more at the end of their life.
Selling what you throw away
What you pay to dispose of today usually has a buyer: as material, as by-product, or as energy.
Scrap and rework
Material lost on the line comes out of your cost first and ends up in your waste after.
Energy and water
Every kilowatt and every liter recovered or put back into the cycle lowers your variable cost.
Design and packaging
Designing so the material can be recovered is worth more than recycling it at the end of the cycle.
What we do at Onira
- Waste inventory with cost: what leaves, how much, where it goes and what it costs to throw away.
- Recovery route: who buys it, who processes it and at what price, with dated quotes.
- Information ready for the Circular Management Plan and the Circular Economy Registry: organized and verifiable.
- Traceability and evidence: the file the OEM, the bank or the auditor asks for.
- ESG indicators and financing path: how to turn the progress into credit or into a customer that requires it.
- Circular design: what to change in the product or the packaging so the material keeps its value.
Frequently asked questions
Does the law already apply to me?
It depends on whether you produce, import or only generate waste. If you produce or import products in the sectors the authority defines — plastics, glass and electronics are the ones anticipated — it applies with targets and indicators. If you only generate waste, source separation and responsible handling apply to you.
Do I have to wait for the implementing rules?
No. The implementing rules set deadlines and targets by sector, but measuring your waste, costing it and finding it a destination is useful today: for the customer asking for evidence, for the bank and for your own cost.
Is this legal advice?
No. We prepare the data, the engineering and the business case. The legal interpretation and the filings with the authority are signed by your lawyer or your environmental consultant.
How long does it take?
The diagnosis takes two weeks. Getting the information ready for a circular management plan takes four to eight weeks, depending on how many lines and waste streams you have.
Is it useful if I am a mid-sized company?
Yes, and it helps even more: the law provides gradualness and differentiated targets for micro, small and medium-sized companies. Starting early is what avoids paying more once the targets arrive.
Start by knowing what your waste costs you.
In two weeks you leave with the inventory, its cost and the three routes that give money back: sell, reuse or redesign.
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