Building Like A Dude

Americans have embraced recycling; at least outside of the south. Recycling is a good idea, it reuses the raw materials from bottles and paper etc. and turns them into another product. The problem with this solution is that it takes energy to convert one thing to another. The humble beer bottle however is finding its use without the costly recycling process.
To recycle a beer bottle it is color sorted, crushed into cullet and then melted down, molded, coated and processed into new bottles. In some areas of the world this costly process is not possible and there have been rebels in the last 100 years that want to simply reuse the item. Which is why I was overjoyed when I saw that the Buddhist monks from Thailand's Sisaket province had taken ecological responsibility to a new level. It turns out that the new Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple is built entirely of beer bottles. Now that is a religion I can get behind!