Turn bread tags into bags: Teaching KL's urban poor how to upcycle plastic waste

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.