1. Recycling at its best!

Bottles are the basic material for the production of Ghana beads. Depending on the bead the bottle is either broken up into small fragments or pulverized to a fine white powder. The bottles are sorted according to colour, so green glass shards will be a sort of translucent green bead. Two sorts of beads are made from the powder,. For one sort of bead, the white powder is dyed different colours and then these powders are layered to form a pattern. These are called bodom beads and were really used for status... the other bead is made with the white powder, painted afterwards by hand and then refired.