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 have ...

Oysters are a delicacy that many New Englanders savor, but removing their shells from the ocean floor actually harms the environment. Now a first-of-its kind program in Connecticut aims to put tens of ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Oyster shells recycled through the SCORE program go directly back into sustaining local living ...

SCDNR’s SCORE program relies on natural resources, technicians like Bryan Luce and a host of volunteers to sort and clean oyster shells from local restaurants Credit: Ferris Kaplan We have to talk ...

The first oyster shells were collected at local restaurants in 2014. “I vividly remember how nervous I was to call the first restaurant,” said Annie Morgan Roddenberry, who was hired to start the ...

Plucked, shucked and chucked into a pile, oyster shells gathered from area restaurants were shoveled, bagged and shipped off to the Piankatank River on Thursday to provide oysters with shelter once ...