Walking path looks innocent enough
Until you notice it is made from broken glass!!
I went to the Farmers Market today in nearby El Cerrito and found this new dog walking path and was puzzled by the material. Was it broken glass?
“Yes, it’s what you think it is,” said a nearby market vendor. “I see people picking glass shards from their dog’s paws all day!” He pointed at the sign, “Yeah, pick up after your dog. Get your blood wipes right here.”
I was aghast. And while the glass mostly seemed to be burnished all one kid would have to do is drop a big rock on these pieces and shards would result. Whoese idea was this anyway? A fakir from India? What next? A burning coals dog walk? How about selling some beds of nails for pets too, or cobras.
This is one of the biggest fiascos I have ever seen. When they talk about recycling glass I’m sure this wasn’t the intent. I’d guess this was some cheap low-bid deal. The savings will be quickly lost when a citizen in bare feet sues El Cerrito over an infection. Incredible!!
IT’s not cheaper than gravel!!! What ARE they thinking?
Crush granite is about 20-30 bucks a cubic yard (figure 2 cubic yards is about a ton). Meanwhile this “tumbled recycled glass” (aka Cullet) is almost a thousand dollars for 500 lbs? WTF?
Price source:
http://www.bourgetbros.com/glass_page.htm#Glass_Sand_&_Gravel_Color_Chart_and_Price_List
I like the idea.
When it says pick up after your pet, it meant to pick up the pieces that are left when you’re done.
Now that I think about it, though, from what I’ve seen of how well cats walk on leashes, this may be a great place to walk some cats too.
Who says our urban subversion movements are gone? This is great!
Governments do this all the time. I’m the community complainer about graffiti. Here, in an old, semi-rural community in northern New Mexico, graffiti is rare — if for no other reason than a scarcity of sites. I try to get it disappeared as quickly as possible.
So, some half-baked schmuck tags a little bridge on the county road. I complain for 6 weeks and get an email back the county has a bid for the job and it will be taken care of. It’s a cement bridge abutment, fer cryin’ out loud.
Two guys show up and spend several days and several coats of paint for the whole bridge and the Armco fence next to it. It’s gorgeous and so shiny I figure they’ve applied some expensive new anti-graffiti finish.
I email the DPW and ask — and I get a reply, yesterday — no, it’s just regular paint. They spent hundreds of dollar$ instead of putting a can of paint and a brush in one of the county trucks that rolls down that road, every day.
The only other target on that road is a little blockhouse belongs to the phone company — the little shits hit the fence a couple times a year. The phone company puts a can of paint and a brush in one of their service trucks and when the guy rolls down that road, he stops and paints over the graffiti. But, local government can’t do it that way.
I can’t believe someone could be that stupid. Glass walkways?
I do know that a few years ago several uses for recycled glass were being investigated. Use in paving materials was one of them. There was, however, to be binders used as well. Pavement and concrete are mostly rock or stone filler will a small amount of binder (which holds it all together) such as cement or asphalt. I don’t know why it didn’t work out.
It must sparkle in the sun though.
Recycled glass set into the concrete or asphault of a freeway might be a good idea, but loose tumbled glass on a dog trail is just stupid.