Name: Your empty wine bottle could help rebuild coastlines
Uploaded: 2024-10-24T15:01:35Z
Duration: 5 min 32 s
Description: What if you could take something as tiny as a grain of sand — and as common as a glass bottle — and use it to tackle the climate crisis? Waste alchemist Franziska Trautmann shares how the spark of an idea turned into a large-scale operation helping restore the eroded shores of Louisiana and beyond. (Created in collaboration with Ignite Talks)

Franziska Trautmann: Your empty wine bottle could help rebuild coastlines

Your empty wine bottle could help rebuild coastlines

What if you could take something as tiny as a grain of sand — and as common as a glass bottle — and use it to tackle the climate crisis? Waste alchemist Franziska Trautmann shares how the spark of an idea turned into a large-scale operation helping restore the eroded shores of Louisiana and beyond. (Created in collaboration with Ignite Talks)

Coastal Louisiana loses a football field of land every 100 minutes, threatening entire communities. Faced with this crisis, a pair of college students began recycling discarded glass into sand to help restore wetlands. Their project has already diverted over eight million pounds of glass from landfills and rebuilt thousands of square meters of shoreline. Tackling climate challenges, they show, starts with hope and a single step forward.