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 ...

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 ...

(WGHP) – “Can lightning turn sand at the beach into glass?” Dianne from Winston-Salem asks. “If so, how and in what conditions?” Yes, it is possible for lightning to turn sand into glass. However, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Stockbridge — A piece of glass artwork can occupy several spaces at once. It can be an object that revels in its physical space and surface textures like sculpture, or an image that bends light itself ...

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 ...