Frosted glass

This creates a pitted surface on one side of the glass pane and has the effect of rendering the glass translucent by scattering the light which passes through, thus blurring images while still transmitting light.

[citation needed] General applications include: The frosted glass effect can also be achieved by the application of vinyl film, used as a sort of stencil on the glass surface.

A similar effect may also be accomplished with the use of canned frosted glass sprays.

[1] This is because the etchants used to produce some frosted glass can leave chemical residue, which can interfere with the recycling process and spoil a whole batch.

Frosted glass that was not acid-etched but rather produced by sandblasting is recyclable in principle, however, since it can be hard to tell how a given piece of frosted glass was manufactured, most recyclers will reject frosted glass absent a contract with specific assurances.