Franziska Trautmann is founder of ‘Glass Half Full’ – a company that recycles glass “waste” like wine and beer bottles into sand and gravel to restore eroding coasts. glasshalffull.co ...

Glass Half Full, founded five years ago by a pair of college seniors, is celebrating several milestones this summer.

Glass waiting to be recycled at the Glass Half Full facility on Paris Road in St. Bernard Parish on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (Photo by Chris Granger, The Times-Picayune) ...