New Orleans Likes to Drink. They Spotted a Huge Recycling Opportunity

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College students started a venture that has diverted glass bottles from landfills and crushed them into sand for coastal restoration efforts.
Turning discarded glass into sand at Glass Half Full, the only glass recycling facility in New Orleans.Credit... * April 27, 2024 It started with a lament over the fate of empty beer and wine bottles.
In early 2020, Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz, then seniors at Tulane University, were spitballing ways to keep their glass out of the trash.
Buoyed by the optimism of youth and enthusiastic crowdfunding, they bought a small glass pulverizer and put it in the backyard of an accommodating local fraternity, Zeta Psi.