CAMAGÜEY.- To promote good practices aimed at a safe sustainable and resilient environment, with the application of the circular economywas developed II Workshop Recycling to avoid contaminatingwhere experiences of productive state entities were shared, from the Santa Cecilia Convention Center.
“In the province there is a strategy for transition to a circular economy that addresses issues not only to reduce pollution, but also to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as one of the elements that we have today that affect our entire environmental system,” explained the senior specialist for science, technology and the environment, coordinator of the pollution and circular economy projects, Arenayda Manzanares Horta.
Among the institutions that showed their results, the Cupet depot stood out, belonging to the territorial division of the fuel marketer of Camagüey. “We are responsible for collecting used oils in the province, both by legal entities and individuals, to treat them as hazardous waste. The material we receive along with the crude oil is currently used to generate electricity,” said the Technical and Operations Chief, Norge Luis Mora Pérez.
He detailed that “they have saved seven million barrels of oil to the country, from 2016 to 2023, translated into half a million USD according to the price of crude oil assigned by OPEC. These oils are waste that can harm human health, the soil , the land, the waters, and the atmosphere in general.”
The Quality Specialist of Islazul, in Camagüey, Yuneidys Espinosa Pimentel, declared to Forward Digital how the chain of seven hotels adheres to its resource management plans, replacing single-use plastics with reusable containers, especially in those properties with swimming pools.
“Our environmental management strategy lies in the use of recycling in the UEB, where every last waste of the productive flow is used or creating new proposals for possible clients,” said the Director of business management of the Geocuba Company, Camagüey-Ciego de Ávila, Idalmis Zayas López.
He assured that the Flexible Packaging Factory stands out as one of the basic units that allows the circular economy to be realized, with a novel technology, based on the use of polyethylene, which will allow the elimination of single-use plastics. He pointed out that the surplus from the labor process, called refill, is contracted with non-state actors, who use it to make lids, knobs and other items.
The Recycling to avoid pollution workshop, organized by the Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, is part of the initiatives for World Environment Day, on June 5, to disseminate care for the ecosystem, which is celebrated since 1973, led by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
Of the 17 objectives of the 2030 Agenda, more than half are related in one way or another to climate, pollution, sanitation and the circular economy, which refers to a paradigm that seeks to change the way we produce, consume , a solution to extraction, production, consumption and waste models, encourages a constant flow in which waste can be used to re-enter the productive system.
