i think this is amazing...trust the Monks to come up with a useful use for beer bottles...
London, Feb 19 (ANI): Monks in northeast Thailand have built a temple out of one million recycled beer bottles, using them for its walls and roof.
The temple called Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, which is also known as Wat Lan Kuad or 'the Temple of a Million Bottles', is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from the capital Bangkok.
Collection of the bottles by the Buddhist monks had begun in 1984, and after they amassed a huge number, they decided to use them as building material.The monks have created a complex of around 20 buildings using the beer bottles, and they are encouraging the local authorities to send them more. "The more bottles we get, the more buildings we make," the Telegraph quoted Abbot San Kataboonyo as saying.
The complex comprises of the main temple over a lake, crematorium, prayer rooms, a hall, water tower, tourist bathrooms and several small bungalows raised off the ground, and which serve as the monks' quarters.
As per the monks, the bottles, which are a mixture of green Heineken bottles and brown Thai beer Chang, do not lose their colour, provide good lighting and are easy to clean. The building has a concrete core to strengthen it and the eco-friendly monks have created mosaics of Buddha using the recycled beer bottle caps.
The temple has been constructed out of 1.5 million recycled bottles, and the monks intend to use reuse more for the building, which is now on an approved list of eco-friendly sightseeing tours in southeast Asia. (ANI)
Edit: Sorry Bubblegum, theres no pic...i would've loved to see one too.. will search & see!
Edit: Thanks Viper...thats really beautiful..what an amazing shade of green! Um...point to note the monks collected the bottles...they did not empty them..otherwise they wouldn't have been able to build the temple. You be good, you cuteheart girl! xx

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Paper Trails

So, this bent and smiling Queen, she halfway makes some sense
To here subjects--as she gives then speeches from her bathroom sink
And finds herself the cruelest sort of jeering and retort
Is the silence, bitter silence, of no distraction.

With a quoting talk and a meandering walk, she perpetuates
The constant rubbing of a Buddha’s ass
And counts, in triplicate, her suspicions of the day
Cusped in her signature, shape shifting to our satisfaction.

There is no structure in the palace anymore, or any less
The Queen moonlight’s with the most oppressive of thieves
Barefoot beneath the old and pungent pines, a graceful swish
Mosaic in her careless toss of tissues as they fall.

Stupefied by the katydid’s refusal to sing tonight
She hums herself a hymn as if in lullaby
Gathering her tissue garden like butter leaf by the moon
Tears falling, no paper trails, no paper trails, she sighs.

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