Buddhist monks in Thailand used over one million glass beer bottles to build a temple, according to the website Green Upgrader. And it's a handsome temple, too; Green Upgrader has photos. Go see.
The monks used brown Chang Beer bottles and green Heineken bottles to create textures and patterns in the walls that "beautifully reflect the Thai sun." Local people brought the building materials to the monks, presumably after thoughtfully emptying them of their contents.
that’s such a trip. it would have been cool to put little buddha images inside each bottle.
Great idea! Are you volunteering to insert them?
Well, that puts the kibosh on my project–I was going to use a million little Buddhist temple shards to build a gigantic beer bottle.
THAT is cool! I saw a documentary once on a home somewhere in the southwest desert that has bottles in the walls and in weird places all over it. Some of them were really gorgeous when the light came through them. Good way to recycle.
Awesome, I was a bit worried when I first read it, I thought the monks had bought all the beer! What a fab place, would love to visit.
What a way to recycle! I also saw a show that had a home where they had taken rows of bottles and turned them into a window kind of thing to let light in.
I think this is awesome and shows conscious leadership!