{"id":25090,"date":"2020-11-25T15:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/25\/the-indian-school-where-students-pay-for-lessons-with-plastic-waste"},"modified":"2020-11-25T15:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T06:00:21","slug":"the-indian-school-where-students-pay-for-lessons-with-plastic-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25090","title":{"rendered":"The Indian school where students pay for lessons with plastic waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Villagers once burned the toxic waste as fuel, but a pioneering couple\u2019s radical education model uses it much more creatively<\/p>\n<p>Every morning, students in Assam\u2019s Pamohi village go to school clutching a bag of plastic waste, in exchange for which they will get their day\u2019s lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Akshar School, founded by Mazin Mukhtar, 32, and his wife Parmita Sarma, 30, has turned its pupils into ecowarriors by waiving school fees and helping to stop local people burning used plastic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/nov\/25\/the-indian-school-where-students-pay-for-lessons-with-plastic-waste\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Villagers once burned the toxic waste as fuel, but a pioneering couple\u2019s radical education model uses it much more creativelyEvery morning, students in Assam\u2019s Pamohi village go to school clutching a bag of plastic waste, in exchange for which they wil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[245,615,65,59,62,266,958,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-education","category-environment","category-global-development","category-india","category-plastics","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25090\/revisions\/25091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}