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In response to a lack of glass recycling at their university, Max Steitz and Franziska Trautmann co-founded Glass Half Full, a glass ...

What We Do - Glass Half Full

New Orleans wastes millions of tax dollars per year dumping recyclables in landfills (we pay per pound that's discarded) and on importing millions of pounds of ...

Seeing the 'Glass Half Full' - Stories - Tulane University

So far, Glass Half Full has diverted one million pounds of glass from the landfill. They turn that glass into sand and cullet. Ultimately, they plan to use the ...

See the unexpected material being used to rebuild the Louisiana coast

Frustrated at the lack of glass recycling in New Orleans, Franziska Trautmann co-founded Glass Half Full, a recycling organization that ...

Hero Overview - Glass Half Full - Max & Fran - Rivers are Life

Thankfully, Glass Half Full is able to recycle 98% of what they receive. Only 2% ends up in a landfill, unlike the 60-90% an average recycling center would ...

Glass Half Full: New Orleans glass recycling turns bottles into sand

recycling glass. “…So far, Glass Half Full has diverted one million pounds of glass from the landfill. · sifting sand from trash. Turning glass ...

Glass Half Full, NOLA - YouTube

Wine bottles to sand: the TikToker trying to save our coastlines · How Sand Made From Crushed Glass Rebuilds Louisiana's Shrinking Coast | World Wide Waste · How ...

Glass Half Full | Glass Recycling, Coastal Restoration

Glass Half Full is a New Orleans based glass recycling company servicing Louisiana, Mississippi and across the Gulf South. Glass Half Full recycles ...

Glass Half Full's fight against coastal erosion - Recycling Today

Since its founding, Glass Half Full has recycled more than 3 million pounds of glass in the New Orleans area. A clear vision. Trautmann says ...

Glass Half Full to build major recycling plant in Chalmette - NOLA.com

Since its founding, Glass Half Full has recycled over 7 million pounds of glass into eco-friendly sand and gravel. The new facility's ...

Glass Half Full recycles bottles into a force for good in New Orleans

Millions of glass bottles from Bourbon Street and beyond are recycled through “Glass Half ... more than 2 million pounds of glass away from ...

Glass Half Full pours efforts into new facility after $6.5M funding round

Glass Half Full worked with Tulane on a study researching environmental impacts of recycled glass sand. The company produces sand for coastal ...

From Empty Glass to Glass Half Full - krewe magazine

Originally planned to be more of an after-school hobby, the pair acquired a second-hand glass recycling machine and set it up in a college ...

Glass Half Full receives a grant and recycles glass

So far, they've diverted over one million pounds of glass from landfills, pulverizing it in-house. “We haven't really been able to make money on ...

Startup recycling company in Louisiana offers solution for glass waste

By turning glass back into sand Glass Half Full NOLA diverts 2 million pounds of bottles destined for landfills. GlassHalfFull NOLA. The ...

Glass Half Full Recycling - YouTube

GlassHalfFull has diverted nearly 2 million pounds of glass from landfills and transformed it into sand for flood protection, ...

New Orleans glass startup combines recycling, restoration

Today, Glass Half Full employs five people and relies on a force of 1,000 volunteers to collect 100,000 pounds of glass a month through ...

Glass Half Full Recycling Program Secures $6.5M for Gulf Coast ...

Since its inception in 2020 by Tulane University seniors, Glass Half Full recycling program has reprocessed over seven million pounds of glass.

Tulane awarded $5 million to find out if recycled glass can help save ...

The project, called ReCoast, is a partnership between Tulane researchers and Glass Half Full, a New Orleans-based glass recycling center founded by two Tulane ...

One of the Largest Louisiana Glass Recyclers Was Founded by ...

Glass Half Full, one of the largest recyclers of the material in Louisiana, is working toward this goal by turning bottles and other waste back into their ...