Altice launches program to recycle unused cell phones and cables

Altice Dominicana began its Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Collection program in five of its telephone stores. In these stores, it placed containers for its customers and all citizens to deposit cables and unused mobile devices. This program aims to reduce discontinued equipment that is normally thrown in the trash and thus contribute to the circular economy.

With an event at the store on Winston Churchill Avenue, Altice executives showed the first container to the public.

Lisa Arzeno, Director of Institutional Relations; CEO Danilo Ginebra; and Cinthia De Oleo, Sustainability Manager and leader of this process, led the activity.

The Minister of Environment and Natural Resources, Paíno Henríquez, the Vice-Minister of Solid Waste Management, Lenín Bueno, and Ana Pimentel, the Vice-Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, participated in the phone call.

Ginebra described the plan as a milestone for the company because it is celebrating its first decade of being located in the Dominican Republic and is responding institutionally to compliance with the General Law for Integral Management and Co-processing of Solid Waste (225-20) and its Regulation for Integrated Management of WEEE.

He stated that this is an important step towards the future of sustainable “ility. “We are here to build a legacy of responsibility and transfer “motion.” He urged people to bring disused electrical and electronic equipment to Altice to contribute to more responsible management.

Special containers as safe spaces to leave laptops, digital watches, and modems, in addition to the Churchill store, are in Santo Domingo at the Lope de Vega, DownTown Center stores; at the one on San Vicente de Paúl Avenue, in Santo Domingo East; and the Santiago Sol store, in Santiago province.

Vice Ministers Bueno and Pimentel valued the program and assured their support. De Oleo exAltice’s satisfaction with the genuine commitment to the environment’s health and the country’s sustainable development. He called for the creation of environmental awareness. Arzeno also puts environmental reality in context.