Dinh Nguyen Binh in Ho Chi Minh City has a beautiful home where all of the furniture and decorative items are made from glass bottles and plastic caps.
Dinh Nguyen Binh, a 50-year-old man in Ho Chi Minh City, has a hobby of collecting used glass bottles and plastic caps and turning them into decorative objects. His hobby comes from Binh’s concern about environmental pollution (Photo: VNA)
Binh has recycled more than 10,000 glass bottles and plastic caps into beautiful items to decorate his home in Tan Phu district (Photo: VNA)
Furniture and decorative items in Binh's home are made from glass bottles (Photo: VNA)
The most difficult job is drilling through the bottom of the bottle. The work required special care, otherwise, the bottles would break (Photo: VNA)
Fixing the bottles (Photo: VNA)
A Christmas tree made from colorful glass bottles (Photo: VNA)
One of the most impressive pieces of furniture in Binh’s house is a set of table and chairs made from hundreds of wine bottles (Photo: VNA)
The bed in Binh’s home was made from more than 200 bottles to celebrate the 15th anniversary of his wedding. It took him two years to collect bottles of the same size, model and color for making this bed (Photo: VNA)
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