Koru Bulk Store

19/10/2022

It is an honour to be invited by Leadership Institute of Sarawak Civil Service to share about Bokashi Composting and demonstrate how we could turn our food waste into valuable compost by using bokashi bin.

We also learned a lot from the session by Mr. Dibasron from DBKU and Mr. Julian from Trienekens.

It is great to see more great initiatives and awareness in organisations and public 👍🏾👍🏾

18 October 2022: Waste Management Innovation Campaign Launching Ceremony: Innovation for Sustainability

Launched by Acting Chief Executive Officer, Mr Fang Tze Chiang the Institute’s employees were given the awareness and knowledge in waste management through 3 sharing sessions by the Kuching North City Hall (DBKU) by Mr. Dibasron bin Didi, Trienekens (Sarawak) Sdn. Bhd. by Mr Julian anak Gabriel Bain and Demonstration of Bokashi Bin by Madam Tay Tsai Yun from Koru Bulk Store.

Upcoming activities throughout the Waste Management Campaign include Paperless Day on 19 Oct and No Plastic Day on 20 Oct.

06/09/2022

Good news for those in Kuching, there will be an e-waste recycling campaign this coming Sunday (11th Sep 2022). Don't miss the chance to sell your e-waste for some cash.

27/07/2022

We know you have been waiting and they are back!

The Koru Team has been working hard behind the scenes to ensure that our KitcoBin and BioBooster are always up for grab because we know that nobody want to delay any second to turn your food scraps and garden waste into nutrient-rich compost.

Let's get back to Bokashi Composting and order your bokashi bin and/or bokashi powder now. Contact us anytime if you would like to find out more.

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06/07/2022

Do I need to clean my bokashi bin after every use?

If you have just emptied your bokashi bin and want to start a new cycle within the next two days, it is alright that you do not clean your bokashi bin. The used bokashi bin is already teemed with a layer of the beneficial bokashi microbes, which means if you continuously adding food waste to your bokashi bin, you can skip washing your bin!

However, there is no harm if you prefer to wash it after every use. It is also recommended to wash your bokashi bin if:
1. your bokashi pre-compost has failed. If your bokashi pre-compost has a foul odor or has blue/green mold then it need to be cleaned before adding in more food waste.
2. you are not going to add any food waste to the bin the next few days. This is because an empty, uncleaned bokashi bin contains too much air and will grow bad blue/green mold within a few days.
3. the bokashi bin has unpleasant odors, a thorough clean will help to get rid of odor.

When cleaning the bokashi bin, do not use bleach or any harsh cleaning products. Rinse the bin with water and pour the waste water from rinsing onto your plants and garden, it is a powerful fertiliser. Then leave the bin to dry in the sun, you can then keep them until your next use.

01/07/2022

Marking the start of Plastic Free July, Kuching South City Council (MBKS) will also start the ban of using plastic straws and polystyrene at markets and hawker centres under its jurisdiction as a part of the council's commitment to protecting the environment and working towards a sustainable future.

We also start seeing alternatives to plastic straws in Kuching, such as the rice straws which is edible and degradable.

For Koru Team, plastic straws are often a single-use item that's just not necessary. What we do is to always request our cold drink to be served without a straw, or bring our own glass straw if we are going for drinks that goes better with straw, like ice kacang or pearl milk tea!

Plastic straw? Useful for minutes, harmful for decades. What we can do to stop that?
(1) Ask for no straw
(2) Bring our own reusable straws
(3) Use alternatives such as rice straws

Stop using plastic straw is an easy start, together we can get straws out of the top 10 list of items collected in beach cleanups.

29/06/2022

Here comes the latest schedule for MBKS Monthly Buy Back Recycling Campaign and Takakura Home Composting Workshop.

New products can be made from the recyclable waste material, it is sad to see them ended in landfills. So if we could not refuse, reduce and reuse, let's give recyclables a new life through recycling!

The date and location for July to December 2022 are now available. Send your recyclables over, collect points and redeem household products!

15/06/2022

When was your last visit to Sarawak State Library? The last time we went to the State Library was our secondary school time, that's long! So when we were informed that the Planet Us Environmental Exhibit will be held from 15th to 26th of June at State Library, we definitely want to pay a visit!

This program aims to boost awareness of environmental sustainability through a series of online and offline programs and their goal is to educate and inspire positive changes.

The Koru Team also found wide range of collections in the library, including a numbers of sustainable and environmental related materials worth reading. There are ample seatings so we spent sometime sit down and read, while waiting for the talk by Biji-biji Initiative "Business in Doing Good".

If you would like to know more about environmental sustainability, do pay a visit and there will be exhibition on environment, workshops, pledges as well as fun games for you to participate. You may also check up their website www.planetus-exhibit.com for more info about the program.

15/05/2022

This maybe the first Electrical and Electronic Waste Collection Campaign in Sarikei, or at least, this is the first time the Koru Team noticed such campaign in Sarikei!

It will be held on 21st May 2022 at Kawasan Perkarangan Pejabat Majlis Daerah Sarikei (MDS) from 8am to 5pm! If you have electrical and electronic equipment that is damaged, obsolete or not needed, recycle them as they still contains precious metals such as gold, platinum! These can be used as raw materials to produce new products.

However, e-waste also contains heavy metals such as lead, mercury & cadmium. Improper disposal will adversely affect the environment.

So, let the professional handle them, and exchange your e-waste for cash!

Share with us how is the event as we might not be in Sarikei that time, but we would like to know! We hope this will be helpful for people in Sarikei and more will be coming in the future, and such good initiative will be accessible for everyone!

14/05/2022

Koru Team is not coming for coffee, not today! We are here for the tall black box standing in front!

From 9th to 22nd May 2022, Share Your Fabric KCH is collecting unused clothes to donate and recycle as their community project. There are several locations which you could drop off your fabrics, look for their recycling boxes or booth at:
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FSSH), UNIMAS
- Aiman Mall
- Summer Mall
- Emart (Tabuan Tranquility)
- Earthlings Coffee Workshop

If you are looking for a place to recycle/donate your clothing, now is the time. Maybe it is the best time to declutter your wardrobe and tidy up some space!

Check up the last photo for more information about this, you may also contact the person in charge directly, phone number available in the poster.

13/05/2022

Did you said you need to run different places to recycle your recyclables and your e-waste? Now you have two in one!

Save the date now, there will be buy back campaign for both recyclables and e-waste at Perkarangan Luar Pejabat Tapak Semaian Desa Wira MPP and the first buy back will be on 14th May 2022.

You could not make it tomorrow? Too short notice? No worries, you could still send over your recyclables and e-waste on 11th June 2022 and 9th July 2022, the buy back will be held once every month from May until July, from 8am to 12pm.

Check up the last photo for the buy back price list, let's see how much you could earn from the unwanted things in your home, isn't that a good reason to declutter as well?

You may refer to Majlis Perbandaran Padawan page for more detail.

19/04/2022

The next e-waste recycling campaign is coming. If you have any unwanted e-waste sitting at home, bring it to Dewan Masyarakat MBKS on 22-23 April 2022 and get some cash back.

18/04/2022

Once in a while The Koru Team send the recyclables we collected to MBKS Monthly Buy Back Recycling Campaign. One of the best thing is they held the campaign at different location so we could choose whenever it is nearer to us.

Yesterday is the last day for the MBKS Monthly Buy Back Recycling Campaign in April 2022. Fear not, if you missed it, the next day for collection is on 8 May 2022. You could also find a list of items them accept and their collection date in this post, just check up the photo in this post!