Floating beauties from corn husks

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.