# Your empty wine bottle could help rebuild coastlines

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDNext 2024
- Speaker: Franziska Trautmann
- Year: 2024
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Earth and environment
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/franziska_trautmann_your_empty_wine_bottle_could_help_rebuild_coastlines)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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)

## Lectures

1. [Your empty wine bottle could help rebuild coastlines](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/franziska_trautmann_your_empty_wine_bottle_could_help_rebuild_coastlines/4ef2174fb75e), 6 min (TED's player)