Thai Temple Built From One Million Recycled Bottles

The Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew temple, which sits in Thailand’s Sisaket province, is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles!

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 even the toilets. There’s an estimated 1.5 million recycled bottles built into the temple.

The bottle-collection-turned-building started in 1984, when the monks used them to decorate their shelters. The shiny building material attracted more people to donate more bottles, until eventually they had enough to build the temple standing today.

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