Tulane University’s Uptown campus now boasts eight glass recycling hubs thanks to a partnership between the Office of Sustainability and Glass Half Full. 

The glass recycling collection centers will be in Aron, Paterson, Sharp, Monroe, Greenbaum, Josephine Louise, Butler and Décou-Labat residence halls. 

Glass Half Full is a nonprofit focused on free, grassroots glass recycling in New Orleans. Collected glass is processed into sand and gravel which is used for coastal restoration, disaster relief, flood mitigation, construction and more. 

Tulane alum Franziska Trautmann and Max Steitz started the business as seniors in a backyard, and it snowballed into a locally-supported business and movement. 

According to Tulane, the new collection centers can potentially “divert an estimated 250,000 pounds of glass annually from local landfills” to Glass Half Full.

Tulane students also have the opportunity to volunteer at Glass Half Full and aid their coastal restoration and sustainability efforts.