For Balinese souvenir shop owner I Kadek Rai Nama Rupat, the past two years during the COVID-19 pandemic have been a fight for survival.
The pandemic has prevented the foreign tourists that usually throng businesses like his on the Indonesian resort island from coming and rising food prices have compounded the economic pain.
Rice costs about 15,000-20,000 rupiah per kg and locals estimate a family of four consumes about two kg per day of the staple, so the trade-in is worth the effort. The 55-year-old said the driving force behind his project was a desire to feed communities in his home province in Bali and to improve the environment.
There's no limit on how much plastic waste a person can bring in, though organisers encourage people to collect trash from their own neighbourhoods.
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