Trash for Cash

Waste bank programs have been set up in several schools in Padang, at the urging of the local government. Two junior high schools have received the Adiwiyata Mandiri award for environmental excellence.

IT was only 7am on a Saturday, but on the campus of SMP (Junior High School) 24 in Padang, West Sumatra, several students and their teachers were tending a small garden. Another group of students walked past with boxes toward a small d