Román Romero López
Initiatives implemented by the Base Business Unit (UEB) for the Recovery of the tourist destination Jardines del Rey, in the province of Ciego de Ávila, increase recycling activity with a view to satisfying demands for raw materials in the national and international markets.
Rubén Aguilar Álvarez, director of the aforementioned UEB, declared exclusively to the Cuban News Agency that the eco-events in spas and other coastal areas made it possible to collect more than 20 tons of recyclable products during the current year, so that dividends increased. and avoided the harmful effects of waste on marine-coastal ecosystems.
Aluminum cans, bottles, cardboard and plastic knobs, resulting from social indiscipline on the beaches and dumping from boats that travel through the seas in the north of the province, constitute the main materials collected, he added.
Likewise, collections in landfills are promoted, where it is possible to obtain considerable volumes of raw materials, despite having contracted all that can be generated in hotel, non-hotel and support facilities for tourist operations.
Aguilar Álvarez stressed that zero-cost recovery—as recycling activities in coastal areas and landfills are called—made it possible to donate products valued at more than 24,700.00 pesos, national currency (MN), to the Raw Materials Recovery Company of Ciego de Ávila. ).
Until the previous month, as a result of eco-events and landfill collections, they managed to recycle more than 34,000 bottles and 27,098 tons of cardboard, he highlighted.
These initiatives help to fulfill the plan aimed at substituting imports, which shows better results at the end of October, based on the sales of different products that allow us to get closer to the annual goal of three million 603,668.00 pesos (MN).
He exemplified that for the tenth month of the year they planned an income of 75,466.04 MN pesos, however, sales far exceeded that forecast by reporting 256,353.79; favorable circumstances to maintain an average salary estimated at 4,500.00 pesos, the quarterly payment of profits and remunerations for high performance in cases that warrant it.
The Jardines del Rey Recovery UEB is currently working on the recycling of 15 products, including scrap steel, bronze, copper, aluminum, lead and electronics, waste paper, cardboard, textiles, glass and plastics, as well as packaging (bottles , beer and soft drink cans) and tires.
In order to ensure the collection of raw materials, it maintains recovery contracts with all hotels and non-hotel entities and insurance for tourist operations located in the Coco, Guillermo and Paredón Grande keys.
Recycling activity contributes to the substitution of imports, the increase in exports and the vitality of strategic sectors of the national economy, in a context marked by a financial crisis, aggravated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the tightening of the US blockade. against Cuba