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Beer bottles reshaped into glasses

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Now this is cool. A fellow named Nick Paul in Chicago takes empty beer bottles, heats them up, expands the neck, and creates drinking glasses out of them. Think of the awesomeness of using a bottle with a painted label, like Rolling Rock, or something from Stone Brewing.

Not only are the bottles recycled into a new use, but what beer lover wouldn’t love these? I know I would. (hint, hint)

There are also non-beery options, like IBC root beer and Stewarts soda.

They run $10 a glass and you can only get the matching basket if you order a six-pack. And, obviously, they need to be able to get the bottles in Chicago. (No, I don’t know if they’ll over a discount if you send them the bottles, full or otherwise.)

Windy City Glass

(via Boing Boing (via Make: Online))

http://www.makersmarket.com/sellers/908?profile_section=productsWi

Buddhist monks build temple out of one million recycled beer bottles

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From Southeast Asia News:

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.

Beer bottle dominoes

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Remember back in the seventies when knocking over dominoes in every more complex setups was all the rage? Even as a young’un I spent an inordinate amount of time setting up steps, drops, and other tricks.

I suppose this is a logical extension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QSU8wXDkcg

At least it would be fun getting the raw materials.

(via Beer Examiner)