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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...