Eastern Cuba makes strides toward circular economy

By Caribbean News Global

HOLGUÍN, Cuba, (ACN) – A number of enterprises in the province of Holguin are already applying the postulates of circular economy, one of the guidelines underpinning a local governance system based on science and innovation.

Juan Carlos González Leyva, a specialist in this field, remarked that it is a three-pronged process based on planning, implementation and evaluation and designed to reduce pollution, extend the useful life of materials, and encourage reusing and recycling the existing ones with a view to sustainable development.

To this end and by way of example, he referred to the great progress made by local entities such as the Iberostar Holguín Hotel’s success in cutting down on the use of plastics and a sugar cane enterprise that managed to increase crop yields by saving water and avoiding river and lake pollution.

“The province is also promoting the training of executives and specialists in this area to improve the enforcement of related legislation and the provisions enacted by the ministry of science, technology and the environment,” Gonzáles Leyva pointed out.

Meanwhile, Cuban companies created export alliances at the recently concluded 4th International Convention Cubaindustria 2024 allowed the Cuban company Weighing Instruments Manufacturing and Services (Pexac) to strengthen its working area aimed at exports.

Laura Hernandez Baquero, general director of Pexac, said exclusively to the Cuban News Agency that the alliance between this entity and the Russian company UralSable will lead to the manufacture of commercial and industrial scales and balances with export possibilities.

This provision of the International Economic Partnership between the two nations will have Central America and the Caribbean as main destinations, she said.

Hernandez Baqurero pointed out that most of the equipment will be aimed at all customers of the economy in Cuba, either food, agriculture, public health, trade, ports and airports, among others.

In turn, the profits collected with CubaRus will guarantee the implementation of social programs in the country, with greater emphasis on health, through the manufacture of scales for newborns and the population in doctors’ offices, polyclinics and hospitals.

The International Economic Association will favour the resumption of Pexac’s production, the only company of its kind in the archipelago.