Cuba will put its first plastic waste recycling plant into operation this year as part of an official campaign to reduce pollution and encourage what is known as clean production. Officials from the Science, Technology and Environment Ministry announced that the processing plant is under construction.

The national recycling program also includes channeling water waste used in sugarcane processing back into the sugarcane fields, installing environmentally-friendly coffee bean pulpers and using bran (a byproduct of beer making) in cattle feed.