Making items like coasters from plastic waste is the way forward to protect Mother Earth. Photos: Hung Bee Ling
To many consumers, bread tags, single-use plastic bags, food wrappers and three-in-one coffee packets are nothing more than rubbish. But Hung Bee Ling – co-founder of social enterprise Hara Maker – knows there is value and potential in these items.
Hung, 36, works with the urban poor to convert plastic waste into upcycled products.
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Upcycling plastic waste
Making items like coasters from plastic waste is the way forward to protect Mother Earth. Photos: Hung Bee Ling
Bread tags can be upcycled and transformed into a planting pot.
Hara Makers works with the urban poor to convert plastic waste into upcycled products.
Hara Makers co-founder Hung works with the urban poor to create and sell upcycled products.
Upcycling plastic is vital to minimise the volume of discarded materials and waste being sent to the landfills.
A colourful coaster made from plastic bread tags.
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