September 4, 2024 3:38 PM

Waste not: Taiwan workshop turns trash into sunglasses

Plastic bottle caps, food packaging, single-use utensils and scrapped toys are just some of the throw-away items that have been given a new life at a zero-waste workshop in Taipei. Customers get hands-on experience in the recycling process, taking plastic waste brought from home, and softening and moulding it into a pair of sunglasses within two hours. "What we are trying to show in the Trash Kitchen is to let you see, feel, touch within minutes how this process can actually work without secon...