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- A Division of Frigon Construction Inc. Lic #928681

142 N. Cedros Ave
Solana Beach, CA 92075
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Saturday, May 23, 2009

Working with Broken Bottles at Go Green Builders

Glass Act: Broken bottles turn to polished pebbles

Tucked in an odd-shaped parcel of port property between railroad tracks and cargo ships sits a slice of inspiration.

At the Red Shovel Glass Co., trash becomes treasure. Tons of discarded bottles, otherwise rejected by recyclers, find new life as brightly colored "stones," perfect for paths and garden decoration.

Broken mirrors, unwanted doors and windows, chipped dishes and glass tabletops, fallen roof tiles, smashed flowerpots: All are reborn into polished pebbles.
Red Shovel Glass Company of San Francisco, turns old recycled bottles, tile and terra cotta into beautiful landscaping materials. The glass is tumbled in water and turns out like polished agate. It's become a big hit with landscape designers, who use it in paths, water features and other accents,

Tumbled smooth, the finished products sparkle like gems in colors rare in nature but common in trash bins.

"All this stuff would otherwise end up in landfills," explains Matthew Levesque, who oversees Building REsources and Red Shovel Glass Co., its recycled-glass offshoot.

This nonprofit operation grew out of materials that couldn't otherwise be recycled. That includes an awful lot of colored or tempered glass.

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