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

After nearly 30 years of recycling, consumers in the region will be throwing away glass bottles and jars. Waste Management will not recycle glass.

There’s no reason that glass should not be recycled, Blair says. Within 30 days, a glass bottle can be recycled and back on the shelf, and that, he says, is a great cost benefit analysis.

Jefferson Parish's two recycling drop-off sites will now be fully operated by boutique recycler Glass Half Full after the ...

The rule for glass recycling in your bin or cart is this: bottles and jars only. Any glass item that is not a bottle or a jar (e.g. windows, glasses, bowls, table tops, etc.) is not accepted. It ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Did you know the shipping of glass is more expensive than the glass itself? That’s according to Matt Laundrie who’s helping to solve Hawaii’s glass waste one bottle at a ...

Newly arrived glass bottles get ready for the recycling process at the new state of the art Momentum Recycling plant on Feb. 27, 2017 in Broomfield.

Louisiana has two problems: an eroding coastline and limited glass recycling. Engineer Franziska Trautmann is solving both by ...

Also, recycling 1,000 tons of glass creates 8.3 jobs, while making 1,000 tons of glass from raw materials creates less than one job, according to a 2011 report by the Container Recycling Institute.

The ins and outs of glass recycling aren’t always so clear. Glass bottles get broken when they’re recycled, but you don’t want to break them too soon. Other types of glass should not be ...

“There’s not a maximum amount of times glass bottle can be remelted,” says Hippert at O-I. But even better for the environment than recycling glass is refilling it, which you can do up to 50 times. In ...