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An employee arranges a paper-made Leaning Tower of Pisa lamp at Carton King Creativity Park in Taichung, central Taiwan. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

TAICHUNG - THE Leaning Tower of Pisa stands precariously enough on its stone base, but a team of Taiwan crafts people has made a sturdy replica of it with nothing but paper scraps.

The Italian landmark joins an Eiffel Tower look-alike and Dutch windmills at a 5,200sq m theme park that features about 500 structures, some life-sized, built entirely of cartons or cardboard.

The Carton King Creativity Park opened three years ago to help a declining family-run packaging business turn a new page and teach hundreds of daily visitors to cherish paper.

'It's to give people an understanding of creativity and pass on an environmental message,' said Huang Fang-liang, general manager of the park's founding company Chin Tang Paperware Co. 'It's to say that after using something, you can use it again.'....

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