Your trash for our books: Students lining up with their plastic waste to exchange for a borrowed book from Raden’s mobile library at a school in Muntang village in Purbalingga, Central Java. — Reuters
A LIBRARIAN in Indonesia’s Java island is lending books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a novel way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.
Each weekday, Raden Roro Hendarti rides her three wheeler with books stacked up at the back for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other waste that she carries back.
