From dumpsite to garden

Resourceful: Chong created his ‘Garden of Life’ using spare materials that he found around the apartment area.

PETALING JAYA: Most people would turn up their noses at garbage but one resourceful and selfless apartment resident has created a lush urban garden right behind his building’s rubbish disposal room.

Mechanical engineer George Chong Tuck Seng, 52, achieved this by planting soursop and fig trees as well as herbs on a 25sq m spot at the Latan Biru Apartment in Kota Damansara.