The last glass recycler in Penang


Last of his kind: Paramasiwam holding up a glass bottle at his recycling shop in Lebuh Victoria. — CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: In a small shop in Lebuh Victoria lies what is likely the last glass recycler in Penang.

K. Paramasiwam, 66, sits quietly at his desk in a small office with gunny sacks of separated glass bottles filling the storehouse beyond.

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