Oyster shell recycling is helping rebuild reefs, protect shorelines, and restore marine life across the Gulf Coast. Here’s how the process works—and why it matters.

Oyster beds are critical to a healthy ocean, because they filter water, prevent erosion and provide a home for an estimated ...

As a participant in the Billion Oyster Project, Crave Fishbar is in its eighth year of collecting shells to help restore the oyster reefs in New York Harbor.The restaurant’s servers, who include many ...

Explore New Hampshire’s oyster farming scene with Laura Brown of Fox Point Oysters and chef Evan Hennessey, where ...

Oyster shells recovered through the Oyster Shell Recycling Program from the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana are emptied at a curing yard in Violet, Louisiana, bound later for oyster reef ...

Oyster shell project improving its process, says one restaurant owner When customers patronize Moby Dick restaurant in Wellfleet at 3225 Route 6, they see 5-gallon buckets with the oyster project ...

More than two dozen restaurants belong to CRCL’s Oyster Shell Recycling Program, which is one of the largest such programs in the United States. The program pays for a contractor to pick up the shell ...

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) recycled over 38,000 bushels of oyster shells from area restaurants and residents’ private oyster roasts just last year.

The oyster shell recycling program has built more than 7,000 feet of oyster reef living shoreline in Biloxi Marsh, Barataria Bay, Pointe-au-Chien and Adam’s Bay using 10 million pounds of shells ...

Oyster shell recycling provides environmental benefits including erosion control, water filtering and habitats for fish and shellfish. The challenge with oyster shell recycling is that they need to be ...