Thai Temple Built From One Million Recycled Bottles

[The Helper]

The Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew temple has found a way to bottle-up Nirvana, literally. The temple, which sits in Thailand’s Sisaket province, roughly 370 miles northeast of Bangkok is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles. True to its nickname, “Wat Lan Kuad” or “Temple of Million Bottles” features glass bottles throughout the premises of the temple, including the crematorium, surrounding shelters, and yes – even the toilets. There’s an estimated 1.5 million recycled bottles built into the temple, and as you might have guessed, they are committed to recycling more. After all, the more bottles they get, the more buildings they are able to construct.

https://inhabitat.com/temple-of-a-million-bottles/?rss

 

[Miz]

Pretty

 

[sqrage]

Spoiler

I think they still have beer in them.

This is pretty cool, hopefully I'll get to visit it one day. Nice find.

 

[Volkof]

Wont that make the temple very fragile?

 

[13lade619]

Wont that make the temple very fragile?

it also has cement...

...but i hate to see what happens if some kind of shockwave hits it.. (i.e. bomb, quake)

 

[Varine]

...but i hate to see what happens if some kind of shockwave hits it.. (i.e. bomb, quake)

Or some douche with a hammer.

 

[Demi666]

SAVE THE RAINFOREST!! woohoo

 

[Myzteryz]

Nice play with perspective on this shot: http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll216/thehelper007/misc/bottletemple5.jpg
Had to stare at it for a bit to figure it out >.>

 

[eellem1]

Fantastic, what patience you must have grasshopper!!!

 

[Turnip]

Yea, that's totally safe.

No possible way any vandalism could potentially damage that structure.

 

[Seb!]

K but the temple's not in the flipping south side of detroit over here.

 

[Varine]

K but the temple's not in the flipping south side of detroit over here.

Yeah if it were in Detroit people would be stealing the bottles. I mean, they're perfectly good bottles. Those guys are good.