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 ...

There are a few natural minerals that can offer the same deep iridescence as dichroic glass, two examples being opal and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Glass Half Full and Tulane University researchers are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for recycling glass bottles and using them to restore shoreline in Louisiana. Can a glass recycling ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A small idea could one day have a big impact on Louisiana’s eroding coastline. A group of Tulane University scientists is turning to recycled glass bottles to help fight land loss ...

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 ...

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 ...