Buddhist Beer Bottle Temple

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block, the Heineken WOBO. Aside from a few experiments like one wall at the Heineken Museum, it never happened.

So Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province found an environmentally friendly way to utilize discarded bottles to reach nirvana .

They took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple and everything in its premises, from a crematorium to shelters and toilets.

The Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is about 400 miles northeast of Bangkok in the city of Khun Han close to the Cambodian border. Using Heineken bottles (green) and Chang Beer bottles (brown) the monks were able to clean up the local pollution and create a useful structure that will be a visual reminder to the scope of pollution and the potential we can make with limber minds.

The water tower and tourist bathrooms are even made from beer bottle litter. The monks were able to have the local people bring them the building materials which beautifully reflect the Thai sun.

Orginal posting  from GreenUpgrader

info about the Heineken WOBO