Ecobreves – HONDURAS: Fomenting Clean Production

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TEGUCIGALPA, Jun 7 2004 (IPS) - – The Honduran Business Council for Sustainable Development, with backing from the United Nations, will begin a program in July to promote alternative energy sources and sustainable waste management in the industrial zones along the northern coast. At a cost of two million dollars over a three-year period, the project seeks to encourage attitudes of “clean production” in the business sector.

“We are ready to look for alternatives to help curb environmental contamination,” says Jacobo Kattán, of the Honduran Maquiladora Association, based in San Pedro Sula, 250 km from Tegucigalpa.

“We believe there are many problems that can be prevented. Before, one could swim in certain rivers, like the Choluteca, but now it's a sewer. We have to do something to ensure the well being of our children,” he told Tierramérica