PLASTIC cups and bottles formerly used to keep mineral water are no longer dumped uselessly. The residents living on the banks of the Ciliwung River, in Gang Tanjung Lengkong RT 17 RW 7, Bidara Cina, East Jakarta, have processed this waste into materials with economic benefit.

Cooperating with the Directorate General of Non-Formal Education of the National Education Department, and Jakarta Development Watch (Jadewa), a non-governmental organiz