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.
Louisiana’s shoreline is rapidly eroding due to sea level rise and extreme weather fueled by climate change. But a scrappy New Orleans glass recycling initiative, Glass Half Full, is rounding up as many of the city’s glass bottles as possible to create sand for coastal restoration.
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- A company is shredding, melting, and molding a secret mixture of hard-to-recycle plastics to make solid bricks and beams.
- The building materials are cheaper and faster to assemble than most traditional ones.
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- Four friends spent more than a decade designing a machine that recycles plastic waste.
- The Polyfloss machine spins plastic into thin fibers that can be used for insulation.
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