BioHavens wetlands are made up of recycled plastic drink bottles, shredded and injected with a polymer foam to create a buoyant matrix in which native grasses and aquatic plants are planted
One day in 1999, he watched as his black dog jumped into a pond and came out streaked with rusty orange. It had encountered an algal bloom of cyanobacteria. Such blooms can be toxic. This one wasn't, so the dog, after being cleaned up, was none the worse for its experience.