ok, let's see how this has come out. oh, wow — look at that! and how many resorts do you know that have their own glass—blowing studio, where you can turn a wine bottle into a glass and beer bottles into a platter? i think this is what you call high—end artistic upcycling. what they've done here is really impressive. it's inspiring. but you have to remember that this is a luxury resort. there's a lot of finances in this place. and you have to wonder could this be upscaled to use as a production line in other parts of the maldives? the country is making strides, trying to modernise how it manages its waste. but the reality is even for a luxury resort, what to do with plastic is dwarfed by the threat from the sea. so the maldives have been sinking for thousands of years and it's the live coral that's been keeping us alive. so, even if sea levels don't rise but if the coral dies,