Guantanamo.- Through the collection and recycling of valuable waste in different points of the Guantánamo Province, the Raw Materials Recovery Enterprise contributes to environmental sanitation and the strengthening of socioeconomic activities, as part of the Circular Economy strategy in the territory.

By collecting valuable waste in areas identified as large generators of solid waste, this entity classifies and uses cardboard, paper, plastic, aluminum, iron and other byproducts generated are recycling by steelmaking industry or other sectors of economy and society.

This work contributes to reducing expenses in the purchase of raw materials and to the export of some to European markets, mainly to be reused in the production of goods and services, the director of the group, Minuska Bailli Medina, reports.

As a result of this work, the Raw Materials Recovery Business Unit in the Guantánamo Municipality contributes about 6 million pesos each month for the recycling of non-ferrous metals.

For his part, Alex Ruiz Llorente, director of this entity, highlights the participation in the Integrated Management Project of the middle and lower parts of the Guantánamo Guaso basin, with the purpose of reducing the polluting load to the Bay of the territory.

The Raw Materials Recovery Business Unit contributes to the economy and to community sanitation with its mobile brigade of managers, the fixed houses where the raw material collected by the users is received, as well as the project to promote the collection and sale of valuable products in the neighborhoods.