The China Post
Date: July 11, 2016
By: Shahanaaz Habib, The Star /Asia News Network
The Star /Asia News Network
Will Chua is a civil engineer with three master’s degrees who was working in a high-powered job as
Tang Thian Yeong, left, and Will Chua take a break from working at their composting center.
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a manager with the Singapore Economic Development Board before deciding to give it all up and return to Johor Baru — to get into organic farming.
Instead of neatly pressed shirts and suits, nowadays you would see him in a sweaty T-shirt on the farm or driving a truck with large brown garbage cans around town, making rounds to pick up food waste.
He makes stops at Renaissance Hotel Johor Baru, a fishmonger, a restaurant, an onion and garlic wholesaler, and a vegetable wholesaler.
“I guess you could say we are a bit like a private waste management company but with no contract. We get these places to separate their food waste. We go collect it then turn it into compost. [FULL STORY]
