Trash can float a boat.

A woman visits the floating restaurant. (AP/Hajarah Nalwadda)
A woman stands at the entrance to the Floating Island restaurant on Lake Victoria near Kampala, Uganda. (AP/Hajarah Nalwadda)
The greenery on the restaurant grows from thousands of dirt-encrusted plastic bottles that form the bottom of the boat. (AP/Patrick Onen)
Owner James Kateeba speaks to customers. (AP/Rodney Muhumuza)
James Kateeba stands on his floating restaurant. (AP/Rodney Muhumuza)

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Mr. K. saw many bottles in the water. That is a lot of trash. Mr. K. used them. He built a boat.

People eat and rest on the boat. Plants grow on it. It looks like an island.

Pray God will help people think of more ways to use trash. It is better to reuse trash than throw it away.

Read More: Mr. James Kateeba works on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Heavy rains bring water with trash into the lake. Fishermen helped Mr. Kateeba gather over 360,000 plastic bottles in 2017. They strapped the bottles into fish nets. They coated the nets with dirt. Mr. Kateeba built a boat. He put plants in the soil. The roots grow around the bottles. They make the boat strong.

Jesus teaches us to use what we have wisely. He said after He fed the 5,000, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” (John 6:12)