Cuba turns plastic waste into lumber
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Like other countries, Cuba is dealing with plastic pollution that has washed up on its beach shores and river basins.
A group of industrious people in western Matanzas province, some 100 kilometers from Havana, is collecting and recycling plastic waste. They are members of the cooperative A-3, which produces plastic lumber from recycled plastic waste.
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