Franziska Trautman and Max Steitz were seniors at Tulane. They sat there, both thinking about exactly how that bottle would be recycled. Or not. So, in 2020, the duo co-founded New Orleans-based ...

Glass Half Full is the only glass recycling facility in New Orleans, and they're producing coarse sand that they hope can restore eroded shorelines. Reading time 3 minutes A glass recycling and ...

Concrete is a very popular building material, enough so that one of its key ingredients – sand – is in increasingly short supply. Scientists are thus now exploring the possibility of replacing that ...

This story is part of Gambit's "Climate of Change" series on climate change and labor in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network. From a small greenhouse next to Tulane University’s Uptown ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Backyard Sapphire has been recycling glass since February of 2021. They started by turning bottles into pebble-sized mulch, then expanded to include crushing glass into sand.

Goodwill of Delaware and Delaware Counties unveiled a new machine that will turn glass into sand, in turn supplementing a depleting resource and saving hundreds of thousands of pounds of landfill ...

Recyclers are burnt out on rumors their efforts go to waste, which is why when one Richmond Hill resident found out her glass wasn’t being recycled, she started looking for some home-grown ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Blount County is now one of the few places Tennesseans can recycle glass in the state. Glass recycling is the latest addition to the recycling options available in Blount ...

PICKENS, S.C. (WSPA) – Spartanburg County stopped recycling glass back in 2016 because local processors stopped accepting it, but now a small business is looking to fill the gap. At a young age, Zeb ...

A Glass Half Full team member picks up glass for recycling. The program recycles glass into sand, which is used for Louisiana coastal restoration and storm relief efforts. It all started over a bottle ...