N.Y.C Restaurants Have Recycled Over 3.2M Lbs. of Oyster Shells to Help Restore New York Harbor: ‘It Is So Worth It’ (Exclusive)

Billion Oyster Project works with restaurants like P.J. Clarke’s and Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s abc kitchen to restore New ...

New York City restaurants are saving 800 pounds of oyster shells from landfills every day and sending them to rebuild reefs, with 19 acres of reef habitat already restored

New York City restaurants are giving discarded oyster shells a second life by keeping hundreds of pounds of them out of ...
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She started collecting oyster shells from restaurants. Now she's accumulated more than 24,000 pounds (exclusive)

Marine scientist and content creator Kaysha Kenney leads a program recycling oyster shells to restore reefs and strengthen coastal ecosystems Marine scientist Kaysha Kenney leads a program recycling ...

‘Nature needs all the help it can get’: projects aim to re-establish oyster reefs

David Lawlor, a scuba diver and founder of Green Ocean Foundation, says it will take 15 to 20 years for oyster reefs to ...

From Endangered Dragonflies to Oyster Reefs, CITGO's Caring For Our Coast Grants Put $620,000 to Work

A beach cleanup that draws 2,500 volunteers to a stretch of Padre Island only reachable by 4-wheel drive. A prairie ...
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Recycled oyster shells are helping protect the Lowcountry’s coastline

As oyster roast season comes to a close, a local partnership is making sure nothing goes to waste. At Fort Johnson, more than a ton of recycled oyster shells are getting a second life. Instead of ...
Orange County Register

Here’s how 724 pounds of shells from the DTLA Oyster Festival are helping the environment

Orange County Coastkeeper earlier in the week received a bounty of oyster shells, 724 pounds worth, from the recently resurrected DTLA Oyster Festival, brought back after a five-year hiatus. The hard ...
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Oyster restoration project could improve Gulf Coast water quality, marine habitats

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of coastal advocates took to Shearwater Reef on Tuesday, releasing 125 million oyster larvae onto oyster-shell reefs in an ...
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Florida communities collect oyster shells from restaurants, cure them in the sun, and return them to shore to build reefs, but viral claims of 500,000 tons and 25-year hig…

Florida communities collect and cure restaurant oyster shells to rebuild reefs. Discover the real impact behind the viral ...
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Can the Billion Oyster Project make New York City the oyster capital of the world once again?

New York Harbor was once filled with billions of oysters, providing a feast for the native Lenape people — and then the Dutch, the English and New Yorkers of all stripes. Some biologists estimate that ...