Like many great ideas, it began with a bottle of wine between friends. “Max [Steitz] and I had been going to Tulane [University in New Orleans]. We were in the second semester of our senior year,” ...

Like many crazy ideas, a possible solution to the global sand shortage started over a bottle of wine. Max Steitz and Franziska Trautmann, partners in a New Orleans recycling plant, were talking about ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

THROUGH LATE TUESDAY AND EARLY WEDNESDAY. SULA: A GROUP OF COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE DOING THEIR PART TO PREVENT COASTAL EROSION ALONG THE GULF COAST. GINA: THEY PLAN TO DO IT ONE BEER BOTTLE AT A TIME. A ...

Coastal plants can grow in a mix of glass sand and sediment, a boon for restoration and recycling In the 1960s, saltwater intrusion in a southeast Louisiana swamp killed the trees and plants that ...

Katie Aldworth grabs an empty wine bottle, puts it into a glass crusher, and then walks through her Maryland pottery studio with the end product: glass sand. After measuring out 275 grams, she pours ...

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 ...