Recycling Oyster Shells

17 11, 2020

The benefits of recycling oyster shells

By |2020-11-19T20:51:12+00:00November 17th, 2020|Blog|0 Comments

Most restaurants on the beautiful Alabama Gulf Coast have oysters on the menu. Fried, grilled, broiled, baked, or in soups and stews, oysters are one of the most popular seafood choices harvested from our coastal waters. With so much oyster eating going on, have you ever thought about what happens to all those oyster shells?   The Alabama Coastal Foundation, along with restaurant partners, created an oyster shell recycling program to put the shells back into the water. After the empty shells are collected from restaurants, they are [...]

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20 09, 2017

Recycling program improves water quality, helps oysters grow

By |2017-09-20T14:30:19+00:00September 20th, 2017|Blog|0 Comments

Do you ever wonder what happens to those shells after you finish off a dozen oysters at your favorite seafood restaurant? Many of those eateries are taking part in an oyster recycling program started last year by the Alabama Coastal Foundation and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. Republic Services collects the shells that would have previously been thrown away and delivers them to a site where they are stored outside. The Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources then loads them onto barges [...]

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