Waste not: Nonglak with her eco-friendly floating lanterns, which she makes from corn husks in Korat. It took a couple of online tutorials for Nonglak to figure out how to turn the over abundance of farm waste into colourful and intricately designed krathongs. — The Nation/ANN
For a long time, Teflon and plastic floats clogged up waterways during Loy Krathong in Thailand until creative people came up with more eco-friendly versions made from bread and banana leaves.
Now a woman in Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat) has gone one step further and come up with krathongs made from a long-overlooked farm waste – corn husks.
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