Windows Broken Into Become Earrings In One Woman’s Quest To Keep Glass Out Of Landfills

Windows Broken Into Become Earrings In One Woman’s Quest To Keep Glass Out Of Landfills

Windows Broken Into Become Earrings In One Woman’s Quest To Keep Glass Out Of Landfills Sydney Jones in front of her Odd Commodity stall – credit, oddcommodityshop.com Car break-ins in the Bay Area are down, but not out. From each one of these ugly surprises, local artisan Sydney Jones creates a surprising amount of beauty. Using a kitchen-top kiln, she takes advantage of safety glass’ crystalline structure to quickly turn the broken pieces into floral-themed earrings of jade green. It not only helps divert long-lived glass from piling up in landfills, but diverts a little bit of the anger over the break-in too. “I was actually overwhelmed by the community response to the reuse of glass. I never would have thought it would be reclaimed glass that people would get excited about,” Jones told CBS News Bay Area. She recycles glass in several ways through her small shop in Oakland called Odd Commodities (missed the opportunity to call it ‘Oddity’ Commodities there Sydney) but the most popular is…