Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Micro-Enterprise Recycles Trash

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TEGUCIGALPA, Jun 28 2004 (IPS) - Ten Honduran provinces will be part of a Latin American project to produce organic fertilizer and thus reduce pollution, Agriculture Minister Mariano Jiménez told Tierramérica. The project is an initiative of the Latin American network for appropriate technologies and will be implemented in 45 municipalities through micro-enterprise involved in waste recycling, and will begin this year, said Jiménez.

These micro-businesses will generate local jobs and produce organic fertilizer from waste that is recycled using appropriate, non-polluting technologies. The government says 1,500 direct jobs will be created.

Jiménez said that before launching the project there will be training for the micro-enterprises so that ''the use of environmentally friendly techniques also reduces the rate of illness in the region and raises environmental awareness.''