Trash is treasure as Myanmar environmentalist turns food scraps into fertiliser


Inda Aung Soe (left) and his wife Aye Aye Than collect food waste in Yangon, Myanmar, on June 3, 2020. - Reuters

YANGON (Reuters): To most people in Myanmar, food waste is nothing but garbage, and that attitude leaves Inda Soe Aung baffled.

But the 35-year-old environmentalist isn't complaining, because what he views as his compatriots' lack of imagination has given him the business opportunity of a lifetime - turning what they throw away into fertiliser.

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