From trash to cash: How a Thai entrepreneur turned used flip-flops into a sustainable business model

Mongabay
Jan 2, 2020, 4:07 pm290 pts
One day in mid-2015, Dr. Nattapong Nithi-Uthai, who goes by the nickname “Arm,” looked at the pile of flip-flops in his backyard. Some 100,000 of them were stacked up waist high behind his house in Pattani, on the coast of southern Thailand. The flip-flops laid there undisturbed for months. A family of…

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