The sixth edition of Expoambiente 2023, an event organized by the Territorial Delegation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA) in Holguin, concluded under the slogan “Circular economy: challenges for the sustainability of Holguin’s local development”.
The event became a workshop on “Circular economy: good practices and challenges in Holguin”, given by PhD. Martha Maria Morejon Borjas, and different companies, both state and private, showed their results regarding the application of this economic model.
“The workshop is extraordinarily important because it moves the idea of circular economy from the grassroots to put pressure on higher institutions that are asleep,” said Manuel Menéndez Pérez, who represented the tourism sector.
Menéndez highlighted the relevance of innovation in the results presented, such as those of the “Inejiro Asanuma” Spinning Mill in Gibara and Holguín Pork Enterprise, which reuses animal waste and develops projects for the commercialization of worm flour and humus.
The new economic actors also shared their experiences, as is the case of the CONSYBA company from the municipality of Calixto García, which manufactures ecomodular bricks by replacing 30 percent of the aggregates with recyclable materials such as glass, plastic and others, an environmentally friendly solution for the benefit of local production of construction materials.
Likewise, Empresa Cárnica de Holguín (meat), Empresa Azucarera Cristino Naranjo de Cacocum (dugar), and Hotel Gran Mutu Almirante, representing the tourism sector, explained how they implement the circular economy model.
Cuba has legislated the gradual transition to this new form of management, a complex but not impossible process, in which innovation must be applied in business to transform the current linear production processes into a holistic one.
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