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A Better Beer Bottle Part 2: One Million Beer Bottles Used to Build Buddhist Temple

Jennifer Lance — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:44:04 +0000

In the sixties, Heineken created the beer bottle that could be used as a building brick. With similar inspiration, Buddhist monks have created the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple in the Sisaket province of Thailand from one million recycled beer bottles: Heineken bottles and Chang Beer bottles.

A Better Beer Bottle

Jennifer Lance — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:25:07 +0000

In 1963, the Heineken World Bottle, the“brick that holds beer”, was created after Mr. Heineken visited the Caribbean. He saw two problems: beaches littered with bottles and a lack of affordable building materials. The solution: beer bottle bricks!

Source: Frost Fire Zoo

Check out the Thai Buddhist temple made from one million recycled beer bottles!