Meet Cambodia’s ‘Rubbish Man’: he runs a school where children pay for their education in recycled waste materials

About 65 kids are enrolled at the school, where classroom walls are made of painted car tyres and the entrance adorned with a mural of the Cambodian flag made entirely from colourful bottle caps.

Sitting in a building made from used tyres, plastic bottles and old trainers, Cambodian student Roeun Bunthon jots down notes during an English lesson at the “Rubbish School” where tuition is paid for with trash instead of cash…