Trash provides a means of survival for destitute family

Pitiful: Little Tini munching on a piece of stale cake, which was thrown away by a bakery, oblivious to his uncertain future as his parents Abdul Rashid Zawawi and Siti Aishah Abdullah flatten aluminium cans, which they will sell to a recycling centre to make ends meet. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / The Star

KUCHING: A foul stench, much like that of a garbage bin and damp clothing, permeates from an incomplete semi-detached house at Lorong Batu near Bormill Estate here.

Part of an abandoned housing project left for years, waist-high overgrown shrubs and creepers had invaded what was supposed to be the car porch and garden area of the house.