Jenna Mack, an ardent recycler, hopes to put 12,000 to 18,000 empty beer bottles to a better use. She plans to build her house with these bottles. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? Moreover, she plans to complete it in a year or so. Stacking one upon another, I really don’t know how much time will it take actually. Still, what I can sense is a real passion to do some good to the planet. She seems determined, as is reported, since she piled 7,000 empty bottles at Savor: An American Craft Beer and Food Experience, held at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
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Being a design freak, she’s so very focused on the right color scheme. Amber bottles with cobalt accent; everything needs to be jus’ perfect. Her green cabin will be a 16’x 20’ eco-construction. Multi-colored bottles will go into the making of her restroom. Another aspect that should satisfy the ecologist in you – both the structures will be solar powered.
Undeniably, it’s a genuine projection of a green mind. Here I present a list of some green bottle-recycling ideas that have attracted me:
1) The Temple of a Million Bottles:
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The Cambodian Buddhist monks went on to recycle a million beer bottles to come up with a great architecture, The Temple of a Million Bottles. Located in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, its construction took decades of recycling. Could you believe they started collecting bottles in 1984! Even the mosaics of Buddha are decked with recycled beer bottle caps.
2) Beer bottle solar-powered water heater:
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Ma Yanjun, of Qiqiao village, Shaanxi province has recycled beer bottles and hosepipes to make a solar-powered water heater. Sixty-six beer bottles and a board did the trick. To keep the water flowing, the bottles are inter-connected.
3) Beer Bottle Chandelier:
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Tabby, Inc, a Texas style furniture and home furnishings company, has come up with this fabulous chandelier. More details here.
4) Recycled Bottle Screen:
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Community artist Ilona Bryan shows up this tremendous bottle screen as she happened to snap it at a natural sewage treatment area for Scotland's Earthship Fife.
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