ORLANDO, Fla. — Walt Disney World is using some magic to turn glass jars and bottles into a sand-like substance used for roads and trails. OK, maybe magic and some heavy equipment. A pulverizer is ...

Glass Half Full and Tulane University researchers are winners of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for recycling glass bottles and using them to restore shoreline in Louisiana. Can a glass recycling ...

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 ...

Most children like to play in the sand. Connie Zehr never stopped — even though she left her childhood behind decades ago. Rather than building sand castles at the beach, Zehr uses the common material ...

Stumps of dead cypress trees poke out of the water in Bayou Bienvenue, the remnants of what was once a cypress swamp. Saltwater intrusion killed the trees. Now, the bayou’s bank is littered with trash ...

Whoa, not so fast! Don’t drop that wine bottle in the regular old recycling bin! Until 2020, New Orleans, and Louisiana for that matter, didn’t have widely available glass recycling. In fact, more ...

Artist Kim Campbell fuses technique and form to create layers of colorful textured glass that evoke emotions as deep as the ocean. As Tallahassee and Leon County celebrate Women’s History Month in ...