Representatives of the enterprises will receive the corresponding certificates on the world Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, September 16, at the Hispanic-American Culture Center. 

Among the eco-friendly entities are Paradisus Princesa and Varadero Hotels, 26 of July Cement Factory, in Nuevitas, north coast of the province of Camaguey, and the Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara nickel company, in Holguin, OTOZ specialist Ines Sanchez Hernandez told ACN.

 

The certificate endorses those companies as having stopped using chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) contained in refrigerating systems, air conditioners, isolating foams, solvents and disposable items, in their production processes and services.

The elimination of CFCs is part of a National Management Program aimed at upgrading equipment to technologies that don’t contain ozone depleting refrigerant gases or that have a low-depleting rate.

In the case of methyl bromide, another harmful substance used as pesticide, Cuban tobacco growers started to replace it in 1998 with alternatives proposed by the National Institute of Vegetal Health. Four years later, in 2002, the substance was no longer used in tobacco
agriculture.

The following year, the initiative was expanded to other covered crops, coffee seedbeds, ornamental plants, grain silos, warehouses and food transport.