Have you ever noticed bottles and other glass containers on the shore at low tide? Have you ever won

Have you ever noticed bottles and other glass containers on the shore at low tide? Have you ever wondered what would happen to them if they are not picked up before the tide scours the shore? Well, wonder no more! The glass will most likely be transported out into the ocean by the tide.
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At one time, trash was not deposited into approved dumps or landfills but buried in pits, and some of those pits were dug along the shore. Campfires on the beach were often the receptacle of the left over bottles and other glass containers. Over time, the effects of tidal action uncovered the trash pits and carried it out into the ocean.
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There are different types of sea glass. Rounds or squares are the bottom of bottles; patterned glass that was imprinted with a design or logo and not completely polished away by the ocean and campfire glass that has been melted by fire and smoothed by the sea.
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cumbria cruise club Sea glass is used in jewelry, mosaics, aquariums, and candlescapes and just about anything else the mind can conjure up. The number of uses is limited only by the imagination. If you have a penchant for the ocean and love to find cool and unique glass bits and pieces, cumbria cruise club take a walk along the beach and take a look. You may be surprised by what you find.