They’re full of oyster shells, leftovers collected from the plates of patrons at more than 45 New York restaurants. Every week, a truck drops the shells at a Greenpoint processing site.

As he opened each oyster, he knew that eventually their shells would be headed back to the coastal again. The shells were collected during the event and fed into a stream of oyster shells ...

Morgan Rudd of Living Shorelines, left, and Grainger Coughtrey of Restoration Systems place mesh bags filled with oyster shells along a shoreline in Bogue, NC in an effort to restore salt marsh ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- A "No Shell Left Behind" bill before Maryland lawmakers would provide a dollar a bushel tax credit for recycled oyster shell, a move one conservation group hopes will ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - The very first direct setting project in the Gulf is underway, and it could be revolutionary for the oyster industry. Divers took buckets of 125 million oyster larvae ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - Oyster shells from a recent oyster festival will eventually provide a home for new oysters along the coast, but they have a long journey before returning to the water.

Workmen renovating Gladstone’s Land, a 17th Century tenement house in the Royal Mile, have uncovered an entire wall of oyster shells, with the super-strong material used to fill in the gaps ...