As part of the NUVI recycling initiative, “Nuvi Points” have been identified for the deposit of plastic bottles by the general public. The Nuvi initiative was launched last week by the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The purpose is to mitigate the contamination by plastics. Nuvi is described as the country’s ” largest private alliance that seeks to create a culture of reduction, reuse, recycling and use of waste.”
The program is sponsored by at least 27 organizations and private companies that seek to recover small plastic bottles and then convert them into raw material for new products.
So far the first Nuvi Points are available at:
Apec University campuses on Avenida Máximo Gómez and at 27 de Febrero
Colegio Apec Minetta Roques on Avenida Bolivar 161
Sunix gas station on Av. Kennedy
PUCMM university graduate area on Avenida Simón Bolívar
Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña on Avenida John F. Kennedy
Tropigas fuel station at 27 de Febrero;
Ágora Mall on Kennedy Avenue
Jumbo store at Av. Luperón
Sunix gas station at Av. Tiradentes
Supermercados Nacional on Núñez de Cáceres Avenue and 27 de Febrero with Abraham Lincoln
Sunix 27 de Febrero gas station
Intec university on Los Próceres Avenue
Polyplas Dominicana located on Anibal de Espinosa Street
Sunix gas station at Av. Winston Churchill
The program stresses that by depositing the plastic bottles in these places, each Dominican will be able to be part of this initiative and contribute to transforming the problem of plastics into an opportunity.
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Listin Diario
Nuvi
27 January 2020