Glass Half Full’s $6.5 Million Facility to Make Glass Recycling Easier Along Gulf Coast

Through grants and loans from Benson Capital Partners, the Meraux Foundation, and AMCREF Community Capital, Glass Half Full is gearing up to build a new facility in Chalmette, La.

The new $6.5 million, 3-acre site will have the ability to process upwards of hundreds of millions of pounds of glass annually. Franziska Trautmann, Glass Half Full co-founder and CEO said this level of production will make it easier to expand glass recycling across the Gulf Coast region.

“It will be capable of recycling 300,000 pounds of glass every single day, which is around 600,000 beer bottles every day,” Trautmann said.

“Because it’s capable of processing so much glass, we will be collecting from much farther out than just the New Orleans metropolitan area. This includes across Louisiana and Mississippi and even into coastal Alabama and Florida.”

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