Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-02
By: CNA
A well-noted waste disposal enterprise in Taiwan announced Wednesday that it had
The vertical garden at the Cleanaway plant in Kaohsiung. July 1. (Photo courtesy of Cleanaway)
built the world’s largest vertical garden in Kaoshiung’s Gangshan district.
The vertical garden, which forms part of the fence of Cleanaway, measures 2,594 square meters, surpassing the former world record set by the green wall of Singapore’s CDL Tree House by some 300 square meters.
Yang Ching-hsiang, board chairman of Cleanaway, said that the construction of his company’s green wall took about two months, using more than 100,000 plants of different varieties to form a sunset portrait.
Yang said that he decided to establish the large green wall with an aim of promoting environmental protection, hoping to improve the general public’s impression about waste treatment enterprises. [FULL STORY]
