Activity Description: Juboken Enterprises converts coconut husks--which are cheap, plentiful, and normally discarded in the Phillippines--and converts them into useful products, such as fertilizer and erosion-prevention "coconets." These products are then sold to domestic and foreign farmers.

Key to this process is a "decortication" machine, which separates the husk fiber from the coconut; the machine was developed by agricultural engineer Justino Arboleda, the founder of Juboken.

In addition to recycling waste to create cheap, eco-friendly agricultural products, Juboken has created over 1600 jobs for Filippino farmers.

Editor's note:Coconets is the winner of the 2005 BBC World Challenge. [2]