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Chinampa Floating Gardens

 M. Ibnur Rashad had been figuring out how to build a chinampa — also known as a "floating island", a Mexican farming technique that allows plants to grow in shallow waters — when an encounter with a woman carrying recycled water bottles gave him his eureka moment.

The lady had asked him if there was a recycling bin around as she wanted to recycle the bottles.

“That’s when I thought: Aha! Why not just make these islands float with recycled water bottles?” said Ibnur.

From recycled water bottles, the initiative then expanded to include the use of discarded beauty product containers from L'Oreal. A kangkong plant which usually takes five weeks to grow in normal soil took slightly less than four weeks when planted on the chinampas. Find out more in this news clip from BBC.