We have, and are still receiving donations of sea glass from all around the world. We have hundreds of pounds of glass from places including Australia, Greece, Japan, England, Canada, and all over the U.S. We’ve received a great donation from Barbara Bush.
Also, more and more containers are either plastic or aluminum so there is less glass around in general to fall into the ocean, crack, weather, and become sea glass.
More proof of Global Warming!
Long time passing....
Aliens
I have a friend in NY who said sea glass is selling like hot cakes on ebay. Maybe that is one reason it cannot be found easily now.
Sea glass still around in the Bahamas. A lot of bottles get thrown off cruise ships and fishing boats.
Bush’s fault.
Why would anyone post something from this blowhard liberal.
He is a typical liberal do as I say, not do as I do kind a guy. I never read his column in the Forecaster. Do recommend Halsey Frank’s or Julie McDonald Smith’s columns.
Btw, the seaglass is gone because people are more careful with their trash in Maine and make sure it is properly disposed of. Also only rich white people can afford to live in his neighborhood.
Similar to the disappearance of glass fishing floats. We used to get a lot when I was a kid that washed up from Japan. All the way from small ones (either round or elongated) to round floats a foot or two in diameter.
They have been using plastic floats for a long time now, so finding a glass float is quite rare and they are now worth a lot of money.
Brown seaglass was really common (beer bottles), and then pale or darker green sea glass (soft drink bottles, green beer bottles). But the sea glass I really loved and was the most rare was blue or purple. That was from milk of magnesia bottles. Those have been long, long gone.
I have a shipload of glass bottles in the garage attic. Maybe I should toss them into the river.
Not really.
I LOVE the Maine coast.
Wish i was rich enough to live in one of those beautiful old homes up there...
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Lots of “sea glass” in NY, NJ, and PA, from the massive reef of garbage dumped at sea.
Not so much in ME.
Maine is a great place to find agate of various tints on the shore.
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People are recycling a lot more, glass is not used in as many containers, its just not used in that form as much any more
Or are they talking about a different sea glass?
A very small boy or a very strong gull.
Does Edgar Allen Beem fancy himself a writer of some sort?