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Glass and Plastic Packaging, The Truth… We all know that glass is the more sustainable packaging material because it is infinitely recyclable. It can be pulverized, crushed, or melted, and made into new products. With an Andela crusher or pulverizer, those new products would be clean glass sand and cullet with many uses! Unfortunately, plastic…
Andela Products Takes an Innovative Approach to Glass Recycling Cynthia Andela, the visionary founder of Andela Products, is transforming the recycling industry with her groundbreaking recycling systems. Her innovative approach to sustainability has earned global recognition for turning glass waste back into valuable sand. Andela’s pulverizer systems keep glass out of landfills, creating positive environmental…
Background The US has a glass recycling rate of around 27% compared to Europe’s 90% glass recycling rate. Despite having the tools and capabilities to recycle/reuse post-consumer glass, which is infinitely recyclable, most of it ends up in US landfills. There are a multitude of reasons for this, one is that fewer glass bottle manufacturers…
Waste Advantage Magazine: For the first time in nearly two decades, glass recycling is coming to Mat-Su. The Valley Community for Recycling Solutions center near the Matanuska-Susitna Borough Central Landfill in Palmer will begin accepting glass in June, officials there said. All types and colors of glass will be accepted, and labels do not need…
Agricultural Fertilizer: Eco-Friendly Alternative Teaming up with Cornell University materials science and engineering graduate student Ryan Greene, Andela Products ventured into exploring glass sand as a potential fertilizer. Together, they crafted a process that turned waste glass into nutrient-rich silica pellets—creating a sustainable, sand-like fertilizer ready to enrich soils and reduce waste. “Through growth study…
Looking for an innovative and eco-friendly solution to divert glass waste from landfill? Andela’s glass to sand pulverizers might transform how your business approaches sustainability. Baltimore-based Goodwill Chesapeake Sustainability Center recently unveiled their GP-05L glass pulverizer, affectionately named Poe, as a shining example of how companies can give unsellable glass a second life. What can…
Glass Half Full’s founder, Franziska Trautman, gave a TED Talk at TEDNext 2024 in October. At Andela Products, we’ve been working with Glass Half Full for several years. Recently they upgraded their glass pulverizer to our GP-2HD while expanding their footprint with a larger facility. We’re big fans of Franziska Trautman and Glass Half Full.…
Using pulverized glass sand in concrete is a way to make waste glass purposeful by diverting it from a community’s landfill and using it to create sustainable infrastructure. Mobile Alabama’s The Osprey Initiative, an environmental organization, teamed up with the City of Fairhope in September to manage their recycled glass in concrete projects for the…
Our customer Glass Half Full, based in the Gulf Coast, got started in glass processing after originally raising money to buy an Andela Glass Pulverizing System. Along with that they created a glass collection program in New Orleans to build a mountain of glass waste. Networking and partnering with local universities helped them find the…
Inspired by Glass Half Full’s research partnership with Tulane University on the use of recycled glass sand for coastal and marshland restoration, researchers at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Edinburg campus are collaborating with Tulane University to see how glass sand might help Texas agriculture. Glass Half Full use an Andela Pulverizer at…
