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 ...

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 ...

When Tulane University alumni Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz opened Louisiana's only glass recycling facility, they dreamed of using the crushed sand to help restore the state's eroding coastline.

WEBVTT ORTI REPORTS. >> NESTLED IN THE ROLLING HILLS OF PALMYRA, NEBRASKA, IS GLACIAL TILL VINEYARD, WHERE WINE MAKING, IS IN FULL SWING. BUT ONCE THIS IS BOTTLED UP, AND CONSUMED, WHAT’S LEFT, ENDS ...

WASHINGTON -- For some years I had thought it a brilliant move to open a glass factory on Cape Cod with its endless source of beach sand in the factory's back yard. That was until Susan and I visited ...

LAS CRUCES — Glass recycling in Las Cruces was introduced on Earth Day in 2014 … that’s when the South Central Solid Waste Authority began accepting glass bottles and jars for crushing into glass ...

Coastal engineers in Florida rebuild the beaches after hurricanes but their job is getting harder. Options to restore sand range from sand bypassing, which involves scooping up sand and carrying it ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Glass artists Nadine Sterk and Lonny van Ryswyck want us to look down. To look at the sand under ...

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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 ...