In an era of extreme makeovers, there’s no material more necessary for dingy fireplaces and outdoor fire pits than glass.  Glass replaces fire logs and cinders with a customizable array of colors.  Sunshine Mix in a living room, Caribbean Mix near a zero-edge swimming pool, Amber near a rustic flagstone patio.  Natural gas fuel provides a consistent and clean-burning fuel with a flame temperature well below the softening or melting point of glass.  Custom homes, restaurants, and resorts have all employed our glass in this stunning and intriguing look.  Fire and water…fire and ice…so hot it’s cool.

Tumbled glass chips are a superb aquarium gravel.  The translucence of glass lends itself to underlighting providing an unprecedented effect in aquatic environments.  We’ve experimented with tumbled glass and our large rocks and have generated some spectacular looks.  The glass is inert and beneficial bacteria grows within the glass chips in essentially the exact same way as traditional aquarium gravels.  Mixed colors provide unrivaled hues.  Spoil your fish and get them something with panache.

Concrete countertops have been extremely popular of late.  Customers have been thrilled at the ability to dictate the dimensions, shapes, colors, and textures of their countertops.  Recycled glass aggregates have been an equally popular additive to recent designs.  Glass adds color and variety at a highly customizable level.  Interestingly, translucent glass adds a third dimension – depth – to any countertop concept.  Some customers even underlight their countertops with LEDs strategically placed beneath our glass chips, a look unattainable with traditional granite materials.  Whether it’s a do-it-yourself vanity assembled in a weekend warrior’s garage or a full-size slab carefully manufactured in a controlled fabrication environment, our glass is resplendent.  Glass aggregate can be used in lieu of or in addition to traditional aggregates.  Both light and heavily polishing brings out the glass shine. 

Many of our customers submit photos to us of their do-it-yourself projects.  Some of the photos of garden glass, landscaping glass, or fire pit glass project installed by our customers are included here.  Feel free to send us photos of your project.

Recycling Information

ASG Glass products are 100% recycled.  That is, had our company not purchased and processed the glass used in our products, it would have been discarded in a local landfill.  We receive recycled post-consumer glass bottles from various domestic sources including material recycling facilities (MRFs) in Park City, Los Angeles, the Intermountain West, and other locations along the West Coast.  We also receive recycled post-industrial glass window scraps and furnace cleanouts from various window and glass product manufacturers in the Salt Lake City area and the East Coast.  Some of our glass is simply ground and tumbled glass with various flaws and inconsistencies common with recycled glass.  Most of our glass is re-melted and re-processed to ensure a mostly consistently colored and consistently sized end product.  In all cases, the glass products we produce use waste glass feedstocks that can unquestionably be labeled 100% recycled.

Depending on the application of our recycled glass products in a given project, an architect or client may claim LEED credits or “green points” for using our glass.  In particular, credits that are often claim include:

• NC Materials & Resources MR Credit 4.1 & 4.2 for recycled content for 1 or 2 points
• NC Materials & Resources MR Credit 5.1 & 5.2 for local source for 1 or 2 points
• NC Indoor Environmental Quality EQ Credit 4.1 for low VOC terrazzo for 1 point
• NC Innovation in Design ID Credit 1.1 for unique designs for 1 point

Our professional affiliations include the US Green Building Council, the National Terrazzo & Mosaic Association, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the National Plasterers Council.