Your trash for our books - Indonesian library creates literacy from litter


Founder of the waste library (Limbah Pustaka), Raden Roro Hendarti arranges books on a three-wheeler vehicle at the library in Muntang village, Purbalingga, Central Java province. - Reuters

PURBALINGGA (Reuters): A librarian in Indonesia's Java island is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday, Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three wheeler with books stacked up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other waste that she carries back.

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