Glass Beach, California

Years of rubbish dumping on a beach in MacKerricher State Park in California have resulted in a strange phenomenon - a beach made out of glass pebbles. At first glance, Glass Beach looks like an ordinary beach (see below), but is actually composed of the fragments of rubbish that was dumped there in the early 20th century. Over many decades the pounding waves have worn down the detritus on the beach into small, rounded, coloured glass 'trinkets'. Nature's way of recycling!