“‘Get one egg if you hand over 20 foam boxes. Get 2kg of uncooked rice if you come with 20 plastic bottles,’ Rangsan Pinthong said on Sunday in his capacity as the chief of the PCD’s Hazardous Waste Disposal Centre.

The scheme has attracted an enthusiastic response. A big crowd was seen waiting to turn garbage into food at a PCD booth in Don Muang on Sunday.”

That is from a recent ‘food for garbage’ incentive scheme launched in Bangkok.

Incentive scheme’s interest me to no end. I started studying conditional cash transfer programs focusing on education in Bangladesh, then moved on to food-based incentive programs, and finally to asset transfer programs benefiting ultra-poor women. All very interesting. We need more focus on using incentives like these, especially for educational and environmental issues.