Drinking is a sin in Buddhism but they certainly don’t have
any issues with building temples from beer bottles. In the north-east of
Thailand, is a temple built from more than 1.5 million recycled beer
bottles.
Sometimes
known as Wat Lan Kuad, or Temple Of A Million Bottles, the temple uses
the discarded bottles to construct everything from the crematorium to
the toilets. Recycling doesn't stop at building the temple's buildings -
mosaics around the temple, predominantly of Buddha, are made out of
bottle caps. Besides being ego-friendly, the disused bottles don't fade,
provide good lighting and are easy to clean.
The
resident Buddhist monks at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex even
encourage local authorities to deposit any used bottles at the temple
which they then use to build new structures.
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