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Turning Crime Scene Glass Into Fashion

When car break ins plague Bay Area neighborhoods, Oakland artisan Sydney Jones shows up with a broom, a dustpan, and a vision that transforms crime scene debris into stunning jade green jewelry. Using a kitchen top kiln, she takes advantage of safety glass’s crystalline structure to quickly turn shattered window pieces into floral themed earrings that are flying off the shelves at her shop called Odd Commodities. Neighbors and fans now reach out whenever there’s been a break in somewhere in the area, and Jones quickly arrives to sweep up the glass that would otherwise end up in landfills for centuries.

Her Street Revival collection has become surprisingly popular, with customers thrilled they can reduce environmental impact while wearing beautiful reclaimed jewelry. Traditional glass recycling in America involves extreme heat that makes the process carbon intensive and prohibitively expensive, leading many trash collection companies to simply resort to landfills instead. Jones’s innovative approach not only diverts long lived glass from piling up in dumps but also diverts a little bit of the anger over the break in too, turning one of the Bay Area’s ugliest problems into something unexpectedly beautiful. She admits she was overwhelmed by the community response, never imagining that people would get so excited about jewelry made from reclaimed glass, but the success proves that even the most frustrating experiences can be transformed into something worth celebrating.

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