An Interesting Take on Recycling

A Buddhist temple in Thailand has been constructed entirely from recycled beer bottles, about half of which are Heineken bottles.






Courtesy of treehugger.com:

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple. It puts every other bottle building we have shown to shame.

Even the washrooms and the crematorium are built of bottles, a mix of green Heineken and brown local Chang beer.