What is Sea Glass

Sea glass is basically old bottles and jars that have found their way into the water as trash. Constant agitation in the sand and surf softens the edges of the broken glass, to create frosty, smooth pieces of sea glass, also known as beach glass. Sea glass comes in a variety of colors, but green, clear, and brown are the most common. These three colors make up the majority of all glass bottles produced since the early 1900’s, making cobalt, red, orange, and other colors quite rare finds. Sea glass can be found worldwide, though some places are much more prosperous than others. Many beach combers have been hunting for sea glass for their entire lives, making sea glass increasingly difficult to find with each passing day. Other reasons for its growing rarity are the creation of plastic bottles and the introduction of recycling; this meant less glass being produced and less glass being thrown into the oceans as trash. Recycling is a good thing of course, but it results in a declination of available sea glass. It is hard to believe that Mother Nature can take our trash, improve on it, and return it to us as something quite spectacular. Sea glass jewelry, in essence, is just another way to reduce, reuse, and, recycle. Who knew that buying sea glass jewelry could be good for the environment??

extremely rare colors- orange, red, turquoise, yellow, black, teal, gray
rare colors- pink, aqua, cornflower blue, cobalt blue, opaque white, citron, purple/amethyst
uncommon colors- soft green, soft blue, forest green, lime green, golden amber, amber, jade green
common colors- kelly green, brown, white(clear)