Dozens of people clutching bags full of plastic bottles and disposable cups queue at a busy bus terminal in the Indonesian city of Surabaya -- where passengers can swap trash for travel tickets. The ...

Plastic is just the ticket if you want to ride the buses of Surabaya. Bus commuters can pay their fare with used plastic bottles in Indonesia's second city. A two-hour bus ticket costs 10 plastic ...

Metrobus, which provides regional bus service, already had installed similar protective barriers on its 1,600 buses before the pandemic — with a goal of keeping drivers safe from passenger assaults.

Item 1 of 2 Residents jostle beside Suroboyo bus after exchanging plastic bottles for tickets at Purbaya station in Surabaya, Indonesia, October 21, 2018. Picture taken October 21, 2018.

Indonesia's second-largest city has come up with a novel way to encourage its residents to recycle waste: giving free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles. Under the scheme launched by ...

A bus can collect up to 250 kilograms of plastic bottles a day, or roughly 7.5 tonnes in a month, the data shows. After collection, labels and bottle caps are removed from the waste and it is ...