Minister Freddy Náñez: Recycled plastic will be an input for nurseries in the National Sowing Plan

Published at: 28/01/2026 06:05 PM

Products made from recycled plastic will be used in nurseries nationwide to facilitate the National Tree Planting Plan, said the Minister of Popular Power for Ecosocialism, Freddy Náñez, during a visit to the facilities of the Karicuao Karibe Industrial Ecological Park, located in the Caricuao parish in the southwest of Caracas.

In a review published on the Venezolana de Televisión website, Náñez said that “we are going to start with a nursery plan, in order to reach the goal of ten million trees.”

He explained that the idea is to take the ecological park project as a model to make it replicable in other communities in the country.

“This requires work, pedagogy, knowledge transfer and advice, above all,” he said, commenting that products are needed to be brought to institutional and communal nurseries, coming from initiatives such as those being developed in Karicuao Karibe.

“Our idea is that nurseries are not only for producing trees, but that they are also a nursery for producing conservation awareness,” he said.

Ñáñez was accompanied by representatives of the organizations Urdaneta Karibe, Nueva Cúa Karibe and La Guaira Karibe, as well as people from the community of the point and circle of the Industrial Ecological Park, and by one of the directors of the Karicuao Karibe center, Johan De Sousa.

For his part, De Souza said that the site has focused on furniture for parks, but they have moved on to other products. “Beyond what has been said, we have made chicken coops, kitchen tables, chairs, desks, because the materials used are multipolymers that are not in the marketing chain in the domestic market,” he said.

He assured that more than 130 tons of polyethylene terephthalate, better known as PET, enter the center monthly through the parish alone, which is widely used in beverage bottles, food containers, cosmetics and textile fibers.

In addition, Irena Rodríguez, from the Ña Plácida Commune in the Tuy Valley, asserted that they collect 60 tons of waste in a self-managed manner.

“We met with Karicuao Karibe's brothers and they identified the unprecedented project. It was proposed to develop it based on the brotherhood of communal values and the Caricuao team has done research that points to the model of doing Ecosocialism,” Rodríguez said.