Cuban experts advise on regional environmental Project

 HAVANA, Cuba, Sep 18 (ACN) Cuban experts offer advice to the regional project of the Global Environment Facility Island (GEF Island) on the prevention of the generation of waste electrical and electronic equipment, reuse and recycling.

Jorge Alvarez Alvarez, general director of the Office of Regulation and Environmental Safety (ORSA), told the Cuban News Agency that they held exchanges on technical assistance with Rosana John, legal consultant of the aforementioned project, based in Grenada, located in the southeastern Caribbean Sea.

He added that the meetings with the consultant served to exemplify with national experiences the application in the region of the Basel Convention, in force since May 1992 after its adoption in that Swiss city.

Its objective is to minimize the generation of hazardous wastes and their transboundary movement and ensure their environmentally sound management, for which it promotes international cooperation and creates coordination and follow-up mechanisms, the expert added.

Alvarez indicated that the regional project includes the Bahamas, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which promote the safe management of fluorescent lamps, pesticides (persistent organic compounds), electronic scrap and plastic waste, the latter being a growing threat to the environment.

ORSA is one of the groups of the Environmental Agency of CITMA, and is in charge of the State Environmental Inspection, in which organs and agencies of the Central State Administration participate, whose activity has an impact on the protection of the environment.