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8 Wellfleet restaurants to recycle oyster shells
WELLFLEET A novel recycling program intends to return oyster shells to the ocean after the bivalves have been eaten, according to a release from the Massachusetts Oyster Project.
The project is working with the town of Wellfleet on an oyster shell recycling program involving eight local restaurants.
Restaurants will divert oyster shells from their regular trash to special containers. Project staff and volunteers will collect those containers four times a week, dumping them in a special oyster shell collection site managed by the town’s shellfish department and transfer station, the release said.
The shells will be aged for a year before they are spread around Wellfleet Harbor to create juvenile oyster habitat. By depositing oyster shells in intertidal areas of Wellfleet Harbor, a favorable environment can be created for oysters to settle and grow, the release said.