Myanmar start-up turns garbage and clutter into handicrafts

What goes around: Hla Hla Nwe, a Chuchu Design worker, taking a break from picking trash to be turned into recycled products.

From a distance, ChuChu Design, a single-storey building across the river from Myanmar’s bustling commercial capital, looks like any other on the impoverished outskirts of the city.

But on closer inspection, the roof has been fashioned from old tyres, the walls are made of glass bottles and the lampshades from melted plastic, all items upcycled by the social enterprise as part of a mission to educate people about waste.