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We drink out of glass containers all the time, but when it comes to recycling that glass, the U.S. lags far behind many developed countries. Now, an innovative nonprofit is working to turn recycled glass into something that can help protect Americans from climate change and natural disasters.

We drink out of glass containers all the time, but when it comes to recycling that glass, the U.S. lags far behind many developed countries. Now, an innovative nonprofit is working to turn recycled glass into something that can help protect Americans from climate change and natural disasters.

We drink out of glass containers all the time, but when it comes to recycling that glass, the U.S. lags far behind many developed countries. Now, an innovative nonprofit is working to turn recycled glass into something that can help protect Americans from climate change and natural disasters.

While sharing a bottle of wine a few years back, Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz commiserated about how much glass was ending up in New Orleans’ landfills. They also cared deeply about coastal erosion. Both Tulane University students at the time, Louisiana-born Trautmann- who subsequently graduated with a degree in chemical engineering, and New Yorker Steitz -who is wrapping up his studies in international development, began researching successful glass recycling programs in Florida and Ne...

“I used to go fishing quite a bit down in Delacroix area. Me and my buddy would go out in a flat boat,” he says. Clements remembers finding “a little spot, a little island” where he and his friend would take breaks while fishing for redfish, sheepshead, speckled trout and flounder. When they went back to the same spot a month later, the patch of land was gone. “I actually stopped fishing because it was so depressing.” To date, the southern coast of Louisiana has lo...