Through her workshops, Yau wants to teach participants about upcycling using materials readily available at home. Photos: Rebecca Yau
Rebecca Yau is a rubbish picker and she isn’t ashamed to admit it.
Yau and her daughter daughter Alexandra Yau Azran, six, live in Langkawi and they often clean up the beaches on the island and end up with bags of trash, such as plastic bottles, plastic wrappings, plastic bags and aluminium cans. Instead of throwing the trash away, she thinks of innovative ways to upcycle them.
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Saving Mother Earth
Through her workshops, Yau wants to teach participants about upcycling using materials readily available at home. Photos: Rebecca Yau
Through her upcycling workshops, Yau teaches children how to fuse used plastic bags together and turn them into bags.
Yau, carrying an upcycled bag she made, wants to lessen her carbon footprint by recycling and upcyling plastic waste she collects.
Single-use plastic items can be upcycled and transformed into simple decorative items.
This colourful bag is made from plastic Yau collected from the beach.
Yes, this clutch is made from upcycled plastic bags too.
With a few simple steps, single-use plastic bags can be transformed into bags.
With some creativity, plastic bottles can be turned into decorative items.
Alexandra is the reason why Yau started picking up plastic waste from the beaches in Langkawi.
Yau (centre) has been organising upcycling workshops where she teaches people to repurpose and upcycle three materials - plastic bottles, single-use plastic and textile.
