Article: Sea glass: Turned from trash to treasure

DETROIT -- It may have once been part of a beer bottle. Or a vase. Or a Milk of Magnesia container.

But after decades of being tumbled by water, after years of having its edges softened and rounded, it sits on the beach, a colored shard of tan or turquoise refracting the sunlight.

Once part of a whole object, it has become its own entity: sea glass.

These pieces created by humans for function have been reclaimed by water, tossed by the lakes and seas and given back to us as fragments of beauty. And now as the weather warms, beachside residents -- and tourists -- are blessed with the possibility of days spent by the beach hunting sea glass.

But what do you look for? How do you get started? ...

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