Plastics do have natural sources breaking them down as they have found a few types of bacteria that eat types of plastic including one they accidentally supercharged when examining it that eats the plastic used in water bottles. There is a fungus from the Amazon that eats the plastic used to make bowling balls. And the oddest one is the Wax moth caterpillar can break down soda bottles
@@steveh1792 Glass is biologically inert, it can hardly be considered a pollutant and doesn't noticeably impact wildlife. Plastic is a pollutant, it kills marine mammals, and interferes with hormones when ingested.
@@ok__6441 Yes. That's kind of the whole point of Chris' video here, that nature is kind of recycling all that glass. They're all worn and slowly eroding back into grains of sand essentially.
we make our own on the east coast and sell it, find a hidden spot and put a bunch of broken colored glass in with the rocks and in a year the waves rounds all the edges smooth .
Fun fact, on the Isle of Wight south of uk, they recycle glass into ballast for concreting and when the concrete is finished you see all the bits of glass in it.
My front steps are concrete made from creek sand and rocks back in the 50's I think. You can see bits of bottles and plastic in there, there's even an intact bottle bottom on the surface of the bottom step. It looks like someone stuck a bottle in there upside down when the concrete was still wet.
Beth Roesch Same! My favorites are the tumbled quartz stones that you can find on the beaches where I live, they usually only churn up after a few days after a heavy storm but they are gorgeous 💙
@@ayla5094 I live in Ohio so I like to crawl around the rivers and creeks. I like my pink and blue rocks. I tell my daughter, I don't choose the rocks, they choose me lol.
Wow!! Love looking for sea glass I’ve found some along Lake Erie and even in Cuba when I was stationed there. But never to that extent. That would be fun to walk that beach.
I do remember at the bluffs of Lake Ontario in the Scarborough area back in the mid 70s millions of rounded green translucent glass pebbles there on the beach, I went back there a few years ago and I can not find one.
I remember going for rock hunting in the sea and I found a grey sea glass. I was really young that time and my mom didn’t care that much so now I lost it. I regret not keeping it somewhere safer after some research that grey sea glass are really rare. I had to go through hell just for hunting rocks in the sea.
Went to glass beach back when I was about 8 on a camping trip! Wasn’t really frowned upon to take glass back then, I had a ziplock full of amber blue red and white glass for the colors of America. Won’t ever forget that
Hey Chris. Great video. Next time you go to Southern New Jersey stop in Cape May and look for some "Cape May Diamonds" at Diamond beach. Definitely worth checking out.
Blue glass could also be glass products produced by Thomas Jefferson. It's a very beautiful tent. They also came with a green color to. My granny has a whole stand up viewing chest filled with Thomas Jefferson jars of all kinds. When the sun comes through the windows, and shines on them the kitchen glows with awesome colors
@@brandonrichardson9569 That's quite possible for that location and other US coastal sites. I live in Nova Scotia and years ago my Grandfather and uncles who were all fishermen use to use Noxzema for their sunscreen. I still find that blue glass today on our beaches. Thanks for your insight. Cheers!!
When I was younger we always used Noxema in the blue glass jar for sunburn, it felt so cooling, I even used to put it in the fridge to heighten the effect.
My dad did his training at Fort Ord which now sits empty with all the homeless people I don't understand why they can't reopen and teach them to take care of the place that way they'd have an address and be able to be kept a better eye on and possibly receive medical treatment and some well needed psychiatric treatment, instead of letting the place right away my dad went back to visit recently and said he was very upset at the state of Fort Ord. He said they kept that place in Immaculate condition and it was a source of Pride for the officers being that was her home away from home and now it sits with the grass unkempt. It really upset my old man. He was stationed there waiting to take off for Vietnam witch fortunately didn't happen for him his number never came up thank God thank God
Yeah quite Positive ;-( , its great to see how a lot of people like seeing trash collected on a beach, burnt trash and melted metals, Awesome view.... Did we all sink to a level that instead of cleaning all that shit up and be disgusted by the polution, we start finding it beautifull?!
Thank you Chris,Super cool video as always! Wow,That is amazing and like your attitude about something nice out of a sad practice.Stay well.Safe travels,,73
Growing up with a crafty mother there was always a lot of sea glass in our house. She loved crafting with it and glued it to everything she could!! Every time I see it I think of my Mom. She would have loved this place!
I am glad that a place like this so close to my home has became a tourist attraction. And yes, the glass is okay to take. None of the three sites are illegal to take glass from. Fort Bragg is not a state Park, or anything, taking the glass is basically considered cleaning up the environment.
I grew up in Mendocino County, CA. My parents were teachers, and after taking classes where they learned to make art from found objects, had interest in Glass Beach. We visited Glass Beach several times in the 1970s and I continued to visit there through the 1980s, 90s and 2000s on trips home after I moved out of state. Over the years a lot of glass was removed, and the last time I went there, there was not as much glass as you found. Winter storms move the contents of the beach around, so more washes up. In the 1970s, to get to Glass Beach, you had to trespass through lumber mill property. There were no trails or signs. You had to be in the know to get there. It is a secret no longer, but is much easier to get to. Glass Beach is one of my favorite places!
Only in america people can litter but then not clean it up or take from it. Its the new thing now. Same on east coast here. U cant take trash from any where for any reason at all
It's kinda odd to me how one of these beaches is protected .. like we are protecting trash lol🤔.. might as well keep on contributing broken glass bottles etc...😏 Ohh and in south Texas there's this beach I went to called shell beach or something like that I can't fully remember but this beach had nothing but sea shells everywhere!! I'm talking feet deep of shells and no sand!
You never cease to amaze me. You take us on such incredible explorations. Ty for sharing your videos and adventures. HUGS and blessings from NY State 🏞🌌🌠👣😎👍
It won't be covered in glass for long, To many people take jars of glass from this place and have left next to nothing. IT IS ILLEGAL TO TAKE THE GLASS.
Imagine being an alien that just lands on Earth at a beach full of glass like that. "wait a minute my scanners said that this planet didn't rain glass the fuck"
Unfortunatly it takes many years to make broken glass safe to walk on. University of Hawaii Maui tried to use planters in the parking lots to recycle glass as ground covers and it has created not only a mess but a problem here because bare feet and flip flops are very common (more so than shoes)
1906 : just get that rubbish on in the ocean. 2006 : there's a island of trash in the middle of the ocean and everything is polluted. lets think of something to solve this issue. 2106 : oh boy, what did we do to our sun...
@@nulano Neither out of the solar system nor into the Sun. It will take millions of rockets to lift them out of the Earth, either way! Stupid unrealistic fantasy.
Amazing to see how the glass has evolved from trash. I wonder how the wildlife has adapted to such a large area of debris. Thanks for sharing..very interesting!
Wow the sand/silicone material that glass is made from has come full circle, back to being sand on the beach!! This is the kind of thing I adore seeing in my YT feed 😀👍💛 If I had stumbled onto this beach by accident there, I'd've been stunned, standing with tears streaming down my face in amazement 😊 (I wrote a poem in 8th grade (1976) about finding love with a harmonious kindred soul being like broken colored glass melted together underfoot :) Btw purple is an almost impossible color pigment in glass. Reds are also expensive & unusual. Purple is what they call a "fugitive color" in glass, bc light (esp strong sunlight) quickly causes purple pigment in glass to turn clear. If you do find purple looking glass, it's often a faded, muddy color. That's why we don't see much of it, people often don't bother making it much, purple glass items can be expensive, and if you expose it to sunlight it soon won't be purple. For red glass to be a really red instead of a violet red, it must have actual gold melted into the glass. Many retail items of colored glass are actually clear with a thin coating of plastic or other pigment on the surface. If you're interested in studying or collecting valuable glass with gold in it, study milk glass & ruby glass. If glass stays out in the sun for enough years, it can get a rainbow finish over time from just being left outside. I found mason jars like that on a friend's property after her aunt died. The aunt had left jars out broken & whole in the yard behind her cabin since the Great Depression, and the broken pieces in the sandy clay dirt were rainbow colored. Also "vitrail" glass with natural rainbow finish is found on the streets of Rome, from ancient times, & is often made into jewelry. I've had several jobs working with & selling glass & crystal items, both old & modern. Glass & its colors & history of manufacture around the world & throughout history from ancient to modern times is an endlessly interesting topic 😀
I've been to the small beach you did not show. It is incredible to touch, sit in, walk on and look at. I never tasted it so not sure if it tastes good. hahaha
Went to this exact spot on this beach with my dad when I was very young, it feels so weird seeing it all again but in a RU-vid video. Also crazier to think this random person is walking in the same location as me and that this video has 500k views.
With the change to shipping recyclables to china it should be looked at again if it is now cost effective to put the glass on the beaches to replenish them. Only down side would be the need to keep that area closed for a number of years till the sharp edges are worn away.
Blue glass contains kobolt which is a expensive mineral. Some red colored glass contains gold that's the reason why there isn't much of those colors on that beach.
Pixy Rose Jes So unbelievable that people still scavenge either of the three beaches. 🤦🏽♂️ Especially since the town won’t replenish what’s already been stolen. This is why Stonehenge had to be fenced off. I hope that doesn’t eventually happen to this beach.
I remember walking up and down the beach as a kid looking for blue and red beach glass. As those are the most hard to find. Idk why but its not because of jewlery, as my cottage has a private beach.
I think it's kinda BS that they would wanna try to keep glass there, or even add more. Considering that it's not natural to the beach, and shouldn't belong there in the first place. Let the people take all the glass they want, clean the beach back to sand, and back to how it's suppose to be. I guess all these Liberals in ca really could care less about the environment when it comes to tourists bringing money to their town.
Woah, exciting site - I like how it blended well with nature somehow in the end although must be horrendous at first...judging by the fact it was dumpster!
the glass is illegal to take from that beach?? :D when you said that people pick up pretty shards, I immediately thought, that's a good idea. they clean up the beach, at least a little bit. but then I thought... people are stupid, so this will be regulated >.< I can understand, that taking huge ammounts is not good for the local environment but allowing people to slowly clean the beach would be a great idea.
When we have huge bonfire parties in the country. We throw the beer cans in the fire. The next morning you dont have to pick up a bunch of cans. Rake the ash and coal away and you have a molten pile of aluminum in the middle dig it up and take it to the recycling plant and get a few bones
Good stuff man. I can't wait to take my son across the country and explore! Thanks to you my list of things to do and see is growing! Be safe and enjoy!
1906 California: let’s dump glass. Cars and building materials into the ocean. 2018 California: let’s ban straws! How times have changed. I can’t believe that it is illegal to take the glass from some spots. Why can’t people pick it up and clean the glass up?
Wow that is so interesting. As a kid I used to walk the beach with my mom and she would treasure the smooth beach glass. I’m sure someday she’d love to see a beach made entirely of glass smoothed down by wind and tide. Amazing!
That's awesome! I'm a collector and I don't know how I would restrain myself from taking a few pretty pieces! LOL! I find some sea glass down at Myrtle Beach every once in awhile When I visit but I've never seen that much of it! Totally epic! Absolutely beautiful! I wonder if you went scuba diving, you could find a car or something in the ocean.
I live about 30 miles from this beach. I would always go to it growing up. About 10 years ago, there was easily 3-5x that amount of glass. Kids and adults alike love to collect it haha.
