Boater Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 (edited) THIS is the latest Buddhist reincarnation... a temple built entirely from recycled beer bottles. Cheers ... monk Sang Barcroft Media Monks have used an incredible 1.5 MILLION empties to construct theirsource complex. Even the toilets and crematorium are made from bottles, while discarded caps are used to create decorative mosaics. Monks started collecting empties in 1984, and ask councils to keep supplying them so they can carry on building. The temple in Khun Han, Thailand, is now on an official list of eco-friendly tourist attractions. One visitor said: “You can see that the green bottles are Heineken and the brown ones are the local Chang beer.” Source and more pictures - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2251753.ece Edited February 19, 2009 by Boater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonthai Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 not sure yet what I will do with hundreds of beer bottles in my garden, which I have started collecting a few months ago (they are not all my - mostly from my neighbours). so far I have planned to make a wall made out of them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangyai Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 Story also appears in the Telegraph : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...er-bottles.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEFLMike Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 (edited) The photos in The Telegraph look wonderful. It must have been painstaking for the monks to design and build. Edited February 20, 2009 by TEFLMike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lannarebirth Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 The photos in The Telegraph look wonderful. It must have been painstaking for the monks to design and build. More pics: http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/artic...ronmentNews#a=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaimai Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Here is the temple website. Very impressive. http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=na...;q=wat+khun+han Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaimai Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 THIS is the latest Buddhist reincarnation... a temple built entirely from recycled beer bottles. Cheers ... monk Sang Barcroft Media Monks have used an incredible 1.5 MILLION empties to construct theirsource complex. Even the toilets and crematorium are made from bottles, while discarded caps are used to create decorative mosaics. Monks started collecting empties in 1984, and ask councils to keep supplying them so they can carry on building. The temple in Khun Han, Thailand, is now on an official list of eco-friendly tourist attractions. One visitor said: "You can see that the green bottles are Heineken and the brown ones are the local Chang beer." Source and more pictures - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2251753.ece Good title Boater - welcome back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johna Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 A city in the US has been crushing bottles, mixing the glass with cement and using this to build roads, its reported to look really good, anyone heard more about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimjim Posted February 21, 2009 Share Posted February 21, 2009 Where in Thailand is this? Seems like an interesting visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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