Nick has seven years of experience in the home improvement industry. He started his career marketing for dozens of flooring providers and related home services across North America. Today, he is a ...
Most types of glass can be recycled an endless number of times without losing purity or quality, but there are a few varieties that should stay out of your recycling bin. Here we look at the different ...
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.
Recycling glass at the curb has been commonplace since the 1990s. If you remember the famous Labrie truck, you also will remember employees source separating recyclables on a truck at the curb. The ...
Although glass is known for being fully recyclable, the US Environmental Protection Agency states that only about one third of post-consumer glass actually gets recycled. A new glass-based building ...
Recycled glass could become part of the next big step in sustainable construction. Scientists from the University of Portsmouth in the UK have discovered that recycled glass powder can effectively ...
O-I Glass Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, says it has completed the development and testing of a new, low-cost mobile glass processing machine that can be transported and deployed easily to clean and crush ...
After hundreds of years of development, Philadelphia has lost much of the organic matter, minerals, sand and clay that make up natural soil. Instead, underneath our feet is lots of "rubble, debris and ...
What should we do with unwanted glass bottles? Turn them back into sand and use them to grow food! Researchers are experimenting with using recycled glass to replace some or all of the soil used to ...
Ahead of schedule, I-95’s temporary lanes are now back open after the tanker crash and explosion on June 11 that caused a section to collapse. The speedy reopening is thanks in part to broken glass ...
Solar panel recycler SOLARCYCLE and Arizona State University just proved that solar panels made with recycled glass work just as well as new ones. In a new collaboration with Arizona State’s Ira A.