The Gift of Plastic Waste

Deasy Esterina works with garbage collectors and housewives in running her eco-friendly business.

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Deasy Esterina

Deasy Esterina (30) has successfully transformed plastic waste into luxury bags worth anywhere from hundreds of thousands to several million rupiah. She works with garbage collectors and housewives in running her eco-friendly business.

Deasy’s passion for the world of handicrafts grew as she neared the end of her interior architecture studies at Ciputra University in Surabaya, East Java. Before submitting her final project, she interned at a number of organizations, one of which was Tobucil & Klabs in Bandung, West Java.