The Environmental Savings and Loan
ON Mondays, before the school bell rings, first-grade students at SD (state elementary school) 88 in Pekanbaru, Riau, walk single file, holding bags of trash.
SD 88 has been running a trash bank since 2012, after Sofia Seffen, the owner of Dalang Collection, a recycling craft group, visited the school and proposed the idea of starting one. Sofia herself is a recipient of the 2013 Kalpataru Award for environmental commitment. Dalang Collection, meanwhile, won the 2015 Paramakarya Award recognizing productivity for micro, small and medium-scale enterprises.
March 1, 2016
ON Mondays, before the school bell rings, first-grade students at SD (state elementary school) 88 in Pekanbaru, Riau, walk single file, holding bags of trash.
SD 88 has been running a trash bank since 2012, after Sofia Seffen, the owner of Dalang Collection, a recycling craft group, visited the school and proposed the idea of starting one. Sofia herself is a recipient of the 2013 Kalpataru Award for environmental commitment. Dalang Collection, m
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