A 74-year-old Malaysian man’s quest to rid the country’s beaches of washed-up glass led to a collection of thousands of bottles, now displayed in a colorful seaside museum. For the past 15 years, Tengku Mohamad Ali Mansor has made it his mission to collect bottles washed ashore on Malaysia’s rugged South China Sea coast. He has picked up around 9,000 of them, which he now displays in a traditional wooden house that he has turned into a museum. They come in various shapes and sizes, from all over the world, stacked across shelves and on the floor—with an igloo-shaped mound of bottles outside.

Old man and the sea: Malaysian on a mission to rid beaches of glass. (2020, September 17). Philippine Daily Inquirer, p. B5.