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.

WEBVTT ORTI REPORTS. >> NESTLED IN THE ROLLING HILLS OF PALMYRA, NEBRASKA, IS GLACIAL TILL VINEYARD, WHERE WINE MAKING, IS IN FULL SWING. BUT ONCE THIS IS BOTTLED UP, AND CONSUMED, WHAT’S LEFT, ENDS ...

A Dubai private beach is transforming its waste glass bottles into beach sand! To combat the issue of single-use glass waste, Azure Beach Dubai has purchased a glass crusher that pulverizes glass ...

Picture a beautiful beach spanning miles of coastline, gently lapped by aqua-colored water — and sprinkled with glass. Ouch? Think again. It feels just like sand, but with granules that sparkle in the ...

TUCSON, Ariz. -- The City of Tucson is using a new project to save money and help the environment. The city is using crushed glass to help with construction projects, and are testing the process on a ...

This is just one of the many applications/uses for the Merlin-VSI™ range of crushers. With worldwide stockpiles of waste glass forever growing and government taxes on landfill becoming ever more ...

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 ...

LAS CRUCES — Glass recycling in Las Cruces was introduced on Earth Day in 2014 … that’s when the South Central Solid Waste Authority began accepting glass bottles and jars for crushing into glass ...

The Alice Springs Town Council has received $850 from the Northern Territory Government to buy a glass crusher. The council's cash for containers scheme begins this week, with the council setting up a ...

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 ...