MARILYN MENZ HONEY SACHETS
as flavoured vanilla sugars, salts and spices, as a way to raise income for the Goroka (Eastern Highlands) orphan charity Blast Inc that Marilyn set up three years earlier. In 2022 the partners opened a small shop inside Diwai Mart at Madang’s Divine Word Uni selling foods, hair products, and handmade Lufa and Okapa (EHP) cane baskets, trays, placemats and bilum purses, and the same year began buying honey in bulk at K500/ month from Marilyn’s Goroka- based Evangelical Brotherhood Church, and repackaging this into single-serve honey sachets for customers. Sadly the rent burden forced them to close
their shop at the end of last year but they are focusing on online sales, and have also started supplying bilums and baskets to overseas retailers in Toronto (Canada), Brisbane (Australia) and New Zealand, while both juggle professional careers (Marilyn as a higher education quality assurance officer; Lincoln as a vector-borne disease medical researcher). Since having the honey sachets recognised in the Lily competition, Marilyn and Lincoln have introduced barcodes on their packaging, and are moving towards large-scale selling to supermarkets, hotels, airlines and other outlets by the end of 2024. – LNM Services
M arilyn and her business co-owner Lincoln Timinao began LNM Services in 2019 to sell locally grown produce from farmers in Madang, East Sepik and Morobe, as well as a line of their own packaged foods such
KAUPA PAUL BAULE WASTE PLASTIC BIO-FUEL A student of aircraft maintenance
STEPHANIE TUKAVAI PATCHWORK OFFCUT DRESSES S tephanie hates waste so always saves the leftover fabric
engineering, Kaupa says the recent fuel shortage in POM prompted him to start researching pyrolysis (heating a substance in the non-presence of oxygen) to create a distilled oil that can be used to run generators and heavy machinery. Using a steel
(offcuts) from sewing projects at her small tailoring business in case she can figure out a use. An idea for a patchwork dress design using those offcuts popped up in 2022 while browsing the internet and seeing photos of quilt blankets with patchwork layers sewn together using different sizes of leftover fabric. Inspired,
drum with an airtight lid to create an oxygen-free environment, he then heats waste plastics such as chip packets and biscuit wrappers (such as those pictured left) over a wood fire, and collects the oil as
she sewed together her offcuts to create one big laplap (piece of cloth), then cut out a pattern for a halterneck long dress. Until last year Stephanie was running her home business in Lae where she was studying for a Diploma in Geographical Information Systems, but moved to POM in October to work for the Office of Ocean Affairs. She had her first sewing training In 2017 when POM-based Ni-Van’s Tailoring School held a Lae workshop and she learned how to sew button shirts, then in 2018 at the next workshop she learned how to sew dresses, with most of her orders now being for graduation gowns. – Moira’s Sewfrenzy Tailoring
it vaporises and cools. Kaupa said his goal was to build his own pyrolysis plant to scale up production to 50 litres per day and enable the processing of waste tyres, oil sludge and municipal solid waste (household), as importing such a plant from China would cost in excess of US$1m. –Bama Energy
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