Public Goods

The Temple of a Million Bottles 
This intriguing Thai structure called Wat Pa Maha Chedi Keo ("temple of a million bottles") consists mainly of discarded Heineken and Chang beer bottles. The catalyst for their construction was garbage; or, more precisely, Buddhist monks in the Khun Khan area got tired of tripping over garbage. In 1984, these monks came up with a brilliant two-step plan to clean up all the garbage. Step 1: Collect all the beer bottles. Step 2: Build a temple out of them.