NEW ORLEANS, La. — It's the tinkling of glass at maximum volume, a sound added to by restaurant owner Diane Heying. “We try to recycle everything we have,” she said, while placing glass bottles into a ...
Louisiana’s shoreline is rapidly eroding due to sea level rise and extreme weather fueled by climate change. But a scrappy New Orleans glass recycling initiative, Glass Half Full, is rounding up as ...
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 ...
(Nanowerk News) Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the capability to use recycled glass in 3D printing, opening doors to a more environmentally ...
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 ...
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 transforms recycled glass into sand to help protect communities from hurricanes by rebuilding eroded coastlines, restoring natural barriers, and supplying sandbags for flood defense.
Before sunrise on April 30, a group of 35 volunteers from New Orleans packed up a truck with 12,000 pounds of recycled glass and made their way some 40 miles south of the city to the low-lying lands ...
Researchers have developed the capability to use recycled glass in 3D printing, opening doors to a more environmentally sustainable way of building and construction. Researchers from Nanyang ...
Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed the capability to use recycled glass in 3D printing, opening doors to a more environmentally sustainable way ...