Katie Aldworth grabs an empty wine bottle, puts it into a glass crusher, and then walks through her Maryland pottery studio with the end product: glass sand. After measuring out 275 grams, she pours ...

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 ...

The other day my roommate came home from IKEA with a pack of 100 tea lights. One hundred. To be fair, my roommate also buys decorative fruit, uses lavender sprigs to scent her room, and arranges ...

Demand for sand in a variety of industries has led to the slow loss of sandy beaches around the world, a problem one company is addressing via a machine that grinds bottles down into glass sand ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many great ideas, it began with a bottle of wine between friends. “Max [Steitz] and I had been going to Tulane [University in New Orleans]. We were in the second semester of our senior year,” ...

Ditch the glass cutter: all you need to cut a glass bottle with is a piece of string, acetone or nail polish remover, a bowl or a sink filled with ice water, and a match or lighter. Procedure: 1.

When you consider the impact of technology and research at Disney Parks, discarded glass bottles are probably not the first thing that comes to mind. Perhaps you’re not seeing all that glass the way ...

Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik has a simple request for businesses along Fourth Avenue and University Boulevard right before New Year’s Eve: He wants your glass bottles. Kozachik has been ...

Like many crazy ideas, a possible solution to the global sand shortage started over a bottle of wine. Max Steitz and Franziska Trautmann, partners in a New Orleans recycling plant, were talking about ...