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Yangon is not the greenest of cities but many people are trying. Many of the city trees are cemented into sidewalks (can you believe?) but so many people are trying to grow some small thing in front of their shop, on their balcony or a flat bit of rooftop. Really hope we can help makeContinue reading “Rusty rooftops and cement trees”

These gorgeous kids are collecting plastic bottles off the street: recycling Yangon style. They drop them in to a local depot where they get paid. A tiny amount of money by our standards, but here every little bit helps. We tagged along with them to see the rest of the process and ended up gettingContinue reading “Kids and bottles = cash”

Sunday, 8pm. Four to five people from the Yangon City Development Committee running around an orange waste truck, collecting orange waste containers from the neighbourhood. Not only the inofficial sector of the trash industry (people who earn their daily income from collecting and selling recyclable materials), also the official orange t-shirts excavating plastic bottles, metal,Continue reading “Late night trash”

Yangon markets!

Recycling Yangon-style. Actually, the streets are relatively clean, everyone says it’s bettter than a few years ago. There’s a municipal waste collection in the downtown area, all very manual, but some of the ”better” stuff is picked out by hand and resold. Cardboard boxes, we think, and plastic bottles. Unfortunately the rest of it endsContinue reading “One load at a time”

Recycling Myanmar style. We need blue barrels and they’re easy to get. But, nope, they’re not going to be new. Like everything else in this country, they’re used, re-used, upcycled, downcycled, repurposed and sold on. It’s fascinating. These guys run a streetside business cleaning up and selling blue barrels. Recycling at best. But we needContinue reading “Blue barrels by the pile”

Markets in Myanmar are colourful, chaotic, and there’s so much choice! #bokashimyanmar #bokashi #foodwithoutpackaging

We have a bank account! We came to Yangon on this bokashi mission with a long list of questions; one by one we’re ticking them off. Some of our stuff is organisational. How should we do this thing: NGO, company, social enterprise or what? And how do we do it? How about visas, bank accountsContinue reading “Bank account!”

Stefi put together a film yesterday from our supply trip to ”our” rice mill. We’ve started up test production of bokashi bran here in Yangon and we’re really happy to work with these guys. It’s clean, they have good quality and are easy to work with. We’re testing different combinations and grades of rice huskContinue reading “Buying rice bran at the mill”

Our days are an interesting mix of checking trash piles, meeting with people passionate about soil, plants, recycling and organic food, going to business meetings, meeting new people and arranging new projects. Here we’re at some fancy hotel about to join a Nordic networking meeting – you never know who you’ll meet and what ideasContinue reading “Networking wherever we can”