Ussuri beach Russia, filled with pebbles made of glass...........

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in other words , man-made litter

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A colourful alcove sparkles under the summer sun just a stone’s throw away from Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East. Even in winter, Ussuri Bay’s brightly flecked shoreline glistens under the frosty light. At first, the colour-spattered beach appears to be one of nature’s anomalies. However, on closer inspection, it’s actually just garbage.

Jutting out on the Muravyov-Amursky peninsula on Russia’s Pacific coastline, Ussuri Bay used to be a dumping ground for a local porcelain factory’s waste and unwanted glass in Soviet times, according to The Siberian Times. As the story goes, truckloads of empty vodka, beer and wine bottles, broken jars and miscellaneous glass fragments were discarded in the bay and left to fester. Nature, however, had a better idea for the waste.