from a local ngo called my diva and nature for them this is a gold mine of valuable raw materials. one day when i was walking back from university it started raining heavily i ran for shelter to wait it out and that's when i saw huge plastic bottles clogging a bridge i was shocked i thought surely something can be done with all these bottles who will clean them up i saw it as a challenge. to challenge. ismail who studied engineering eventually devised a way to convert the bottles into something practical and useful after being cleaned and checked for quality the bottles become the basic building blocks for constructing what the organization calls eco boats. close to a thousand bottles are needed for a six metre canoe shaped vessel it takes about three days to make one additional materials needed are purchased with money earned from both sales. there's