The Woman Who Saw Gold in Garbage

Somewhere on a street in Kathmandu right now, someone is walking past a plastic bottle. Sarita Bajracharya would pick it up and make something beautiful out of it.

A plastic bottle. A torn milk wrapper. To most of us, these are things to ignore or throw away. To Sarita, they were always something else: a material, a possibility, a product waiting to happen. She’d collect them off the street, tuck them into her bag, and bring them home. Not out of habit. Out of vision.