ONE of the serious effects of the earthquake—8.6 on the Richter scale—which devastated Nias Island in March 2005, was garbage. Building ruins formed instant mountains of debris everywhere. The advent of foreign and domestic volunteers—bringing with them assistance in the form of food and clothes—adds to the garbage volume. Plastic became one of the most prominent—and scary—in Nias, after the tsunami in 2004 and the big quake the follo