Trash for rice: Bali recycling scheme gives families pandemic lifeline

By Sultan Anshori
For Balinese souvenir shop owner I Kadek Rai Nama Rupat, the past two years during the Covid-19 pandemic have been a fight for survival.
The pandemic has prevented the foreign tourists that usually throng businesses like his on the Indonesian resort island from coming and rising food prices have compounded the economic pain.
But a local non-profit group is offering help by exchanging rice for plastic trash that is then sold to a recycling company.
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