INTEC and Do Sostenible sign agreement to improve solid waste management
SANTO DOMINGO. - The Public Private Trust for the Integral Management of Solid Waste (DO Sustainable) and the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) agreed promote actions de educational character y scientific, focused on to improve la management of the Solid waste in the country.
During the signing of a collaboration agreement, which was carried out at INTEC, Julio Sánchez Maríñez, rector of that university, welcomed the Sustainable DO initiative and stated that the environmental approach and natural and renewable resources has been at INTEC since its genesis .
“The Observatory of Climate Change and Resilience, and the Center for Environmental Study and Management at INTEC are historic. In addition, we have the Basic and Environmental Sciences Area and the INTEC Ecological student group, so this is the type of issue in which the institution has a historical commitment. Additionally, we have a doctorate in Environmental Sciences, which is in its third round, and that of Energy Management for Sustainable Development," said Dr. Sanchez Marinez.
On your side, Armando Paino Henríquez Dájer, Executive Director of Sustainable DO, indicated that from the moment he received the order from the President Luis Abinader to collaborate on this long journey that seeks to solve the problem of solid waste, identified as a need to be able to integrate all sectors, but beginning with the academy in such a sensitive and important issue at this time.
“Our experience to date has made it clear to us that we need to achieve synergy between the public and private sectors, emphasizing efforts in the educational part to provide a comprehensive solution to this environmental problem that we have ignored for decades. For this, the participation of independent actors who contribute from their different roles is necessary to fill the gap, not only of information, but also in terms of legal, legal, economic, technical, environmental and market components, to start the process of transformation that our country needs and thus become a more sustainable one”, said the executive director of DO Sostenible.