STORY: Could the humble oyster help the construction industry reduce its carbon footprint?London-based architect and designer Mooka Srisurayotin may have an answer with a new sustainable building ...

WELLFLEET — Two 5-foot-tall piles of spent oyster shells sit in a corner of Wellfleet’s garbage and recycling center, baking in the hot summer sun. The approximately 25,000 pounds of bivalves ...

At Wang’s factory, the shells are ground into nano beads and combined with yarn made from recycled plastic bottles. “It creates a magical yarn,” he said. “Oyster shell is a material with low thermal ...

Every year, thousands of oyster shells are loaded onto a boat, hauled back off to the ocean, and replanted in creeks along the Lowcountry shore. It’s all part of SCDNR’s Shellfish Ground ...

The Connecticut group is smaller but growing. In 2024, it collected about 375,000 pounds of shell. This year, working with a network of about 50 restaurants across Connecticut and a commercial ...