I've been obsessed with picking up the glass on Beach Road Extension beach in East Providence for 2 weeks. Today I finally just drove down there with a bucket and shovel and started picking it up. In an hour and a half I filled the bucket. And I only covered a few square feet of beach. A few minutes after I'd started, a little girl came up to me. She showed me the cut on her foot from the glass and started picking up glass with me. Her 6 year old cousin came over with a bucket and started in on it too. They really worked at it. Both Danielle and Ryan turned out to be six years old. Both followed me along the beach picking up glass and telling me all about themselves and their cousins and their friends and their birthdays and how they can swim without floaties. Danielle told me she was going to get her other cousins and her friends to come down to pick up glass too.
So, I'm home with a bucket of broken glass. I rinsed it in the kitchen sink to get the sand off. I thought I'd fill a few Classico sauce jars with the different colors but there's way too much of it to cram into the jars and most of the chunks are too big anyway. Maybe one big container with layers of each color. Maybe goldfish bowls or an aquarium. We're talking a lot of glass!