SEATTLE (Recycling Monster): The proposed $6.5 million state-of-the-art recycling facility in Chalmette, LA by Glass Half Full is expected to have a processing capacity of around 600,000 beer bottles per day. The facility is being built with the help of grants and loans from VBenson Capital Partners, the Meraux Foundation, and AMCREF Community Capital.

The new recycling facility will help the non-profit glass recycler to expand glass recycling across the Gulf Coast region.  The glass will be collected not only from the New Orleans metropolitan area, but also from farther regions across Louisiana and Mississippi and even from coastal Alabama and Florida, said Franziska Trautmann, co-founder and CEO, Glass Half Full.

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Founded in 2020, Glass Half Full has successfully recycled over 7 million pounds of glass into eco-friendly sand and gravel. These in turn are used to manufacture new glass products as well in other projects such as Louisiana coastal restoration projects and storm relief initiatives.

The construction of the new facility, on the site of an old landfill, is expected to be completed over the next nine months.