According to the China Daily, "The Thai Buddhist temple has found an environmentally friendly way to utilize discarded bottles to reach nirvana.

"[1][2] The main temple has a concrete core, with collected bottles used as construction materials.

As of 2009[update] there were a total of 20 buildings constructed in this fashion; in addition to the temple there were a crematorium, a series of prayer rooms, the local water tower, bathrooms for the use of tourists as well as several raised bungalows which are used as housing for the monks.

"[3] In 2015, it was named one of the ten leading examples of sustainable architecture by travel website When on Earth.

[5] Parenthetically, 50 years ago the Heineken company looked into changing their bottles so that they could be used as building blocks, a construction material.