From trash to treasure: One man's crusade to give discarded items new life

 

THE STRAITS TIMES

Feb 1st, 2018

 

One man is on a crusade to turn the tide on trash.

 

For Mr Arthur Huang, what others see as unusable discards, he views as a resource that can keep on giving. He has turned cigarette butts into building materials, CDs and DVDs into frames for sunglasses, and plastic bottles into clothing, for instance.

 

Driven in part by a hatred of plastic, he started his mission 13 years ago to give discarded items new life, setting up upcycling firm MINIWIZ in the heart of Taipei city.

 

"Hating plastic won't make it go away. So I decided to do something about it," said the 40-year-old architect and engineer.