Crushed glass to be spread on beaches

[rodeodance]

Crushed glass to be spread on beaches
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070826/ap_on_sc/beach_glass;_ylt=An38YcFOCI2Z9EV4alLh09Bg.3QA
By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writer 21 minutes ago

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water — and sprinkled with glass.
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Some people are raising caution flags.

"There's no way that you can predict all the environmental consequences of an action like this," said Dennis Heinemann, a senior scientist with the Ocean Conservancy. "There always will be unforeseen consequences."

One example sits just off shore.

The state and Broward County are spending millions to remove some 700,000 old tires that were placed on the ocean floor off Fort Lauderdale in the 1970s and fastened together to create an artificial reef. The tires came loose, moving around and scouring the ocean floor and wedging against natural reefs, killing coral.

[Trajan]

1. You know ....

IF nature has chosen to remove that sand .... Who the hell thinks they can keep resisting ?

It's a fools errand ....

[Deja Q]

2. Lake Superior

Doesn't its shore have pieces of glass, made smooth by the currents an eddies that wash over them?

That lake could be used be used as an example of what could happen.

[kevinmc]

3. The Beach will be like Fiberglass .. Great Idea ..... n/t

[wordpix]

4. if developers were prevented from building so close to the water,

and barrier islands and sand dunes were left intact/undeveloped, it wouldn't matter if there's natural beach erosion b/c no homes or hotels would be lost.

I don't know how they're going to keep shards of glass that can cut people from mixing with the sand.

[nealmhughes]

8. I'm pretty sure it will be pulverized glass that has lost all hints of sharpness.

If I recall correctly, portions of the NY Thruway are made with asphalt mixed with this pulverized glass. . . it is kinda greenish in hue. After all, glass is just basicly sand with other coloring and stuff mixed in. I know that when a shard washes up on an Atlantic beach, it is smooth as a pebble and not sharp at all. The wave action pounds it, the sand basicly polishes it like it were in a gem polisher filled with jeweler's rouge.

I would want to see some of the stuff though before I walked on it!

[onethatcares]

5. imagine, sand the color of beer bottles,

brown with a trace of heiniken green mixed in, the clear of a corona bottle, miles and miles and miles

[valerief]

6. I thought glass was made of sand. nt

[pansypoo53219]

7. it is basically.

silica.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. BAD IDEA. Weathered glass is smooth, chipped/broken glass is not.

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