A Better Beer Bottle Part 2: One Million Beer Bottles Used to Build Buddhist Temple

beer bottle Thai Buddhist templeIn the sixties, Heineken created the beer bottle that could be used as a building brick. With similar inspiration, Buddhist monks have created the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple in the Sisaket province of Thailand from one million recycled beer bottles:  Heineken bottles and Chang Beer bottles. 

monk in beer bottle Buddhist temple

Via: Green Upgrader

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4 Comments

  1. Just popped into my head…

    One million bottles of beer make the walls,
    One million bottles of beer!

  2. …take one down pass it around… the structural integrity is seriously compromised.

  3. [...] then there’s this very cool Buddhist temple in Thailand built entirely from one million recycled beer bottles. Buddhist monks built the Wat Pa Maha Chedi [...]

  4. awesome!! but i would like to see more pictures!

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