Article: Cape Cod, Mass.-Area Tourists Find Less Sea Glass, Cleaner Environment.

By Beth Daley, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 13--YARMOUTH, Mass.--The downside of a cleaner environment is found in the empty palms of tourists on the long stretches of Cape Cod beaches: There is hardly any sea glass, those muted shards rubbed smooth by endless waves.

Litter laws and the demise of glass containers have forced lovers of the opa...ue slivers tumbled for generations in the ocean to resort to unusual means in their ...uest for the frosted bits of colored glass.

One Massachusetts jewelry maker recently sent out a plea for sea glass in the Cape Cod Times. Two years ago, a Provincetown boat captain ...

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