After almost a year of created the non-agricultural cooperative to collect solid waste in Contramaestre, this shows satisfactory results in the collection of raw materials in the territory and the government order.

"In this year, but still we're fungiendo experimentally, we are adjusting our territory with unique characteristics, to the new regulations for cooperatives, yet the results have been encouraging," said Lidia Esther Rizo Kindelan, president of the cooperative.
"We have made changes to our government order adjusting to our environment and the very conditions that have developed in the cooperative and although we violate three products, such as steel scrap tailored and off measure and scrap cast iron, we meet most ferrous and non-aluminum products, copper, bronze, textile packaging, plastic, paper, among others.
This new type of state not work in the municipality contramaestrense maintains nine members with an advance of 1,400 pesos a month, he said that according to the president of the same, "we must rise as the initial pay the bank loan."
The workflow has a fundamental formula, work together to fulfill the plans, because I earned directly affect the salary of each month.
Right now have 18 contracts with state companies, but "we still hire and Communal Services Foreman or ETECSA, for some reason, beyond their control. There are bureaucratic obstacles that hinder us some cooperative work, but I think that will be refined over the years and accumulated experience. It is also important to change the mentality of many people in this sense, and understand this new form of management, "he said Rizo Kindelan.
Greater autonomy in management and know that the daily effort depends on the particular family economy and has allowed this cooperative members become more engaged in their work every day.