Scientists found glass fragments inside the skull of a young man who died in Herculaneum when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in 79 CE.

It was partly the work of the area's beer drinkers. The 3,500 bags of pale sand were made from lots and lots of recycled glass -- the equivalent of 300,000 beer bottles. Marsh grasses will be ...

Pete Moe, executive director of The Exchange/Orcas Recycling Services, digs into the mound of cullet for test samples.

Discover more about sand mining, where it occurs, and why the process damages the environments in which it is carried out in ...

That strain is not from increasing demand for gold, diamonds, or copper, but for sand, the primary material for construction and hence for economic development. Concrete and glass are made mostly of ...

Canadian Premium Sand has revealed plans to build a solar glass factory in Selkirk, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The company said Selkirk was identified as a preferred location after the ...

Orcas Island’s trailblazing project to divert heavy, discarded glass away from destination landfills and back to the ...