DID you know that waste paper, pieces of plastic, empty cans and even soft-drink bottles are now being used in floral design? And very effectively, too, as visitors will see at the Green Hong Kong Carnival which starts today at the Piazza and Arcade of Kowloon Park.

This new trend of floral design, called Egitsu Ikebana, is just one of many unusual attractions at the five-day Green Carnival.

Visitors will be fascinated at many of the ingenious designs which combine trash with nature to create this striking new form of Ikebana.