Many people have backyard projects, but very few expand those projects into a 40,000-square-foot glass recycling facility and a federally funded research project. For Glass Half Full co-founder Franziska Trautmann, it all happened organically, though quickly. Trautmann and her co-founder, Max Steitz, were seniors at Tulane University in 2020. She said that over the course of their college careers, they had produced a decent amount of glass bottles, and always wished they could be recycled. However, New Orleans, like most of the state, does not have glass recycling facilities. "One night over a bottle of wine, we said, 'Hmm, why does it have to go to a landfill? Could we do something about this?'" Trautmann said. "So we decided to start what we thought would be a very small project to recycle glass in our friend group."
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