On Governors Island, Billion Oyster Project is turning restaurant oyster shells into habitat for new oyster reefs in New York Harbor. The project has raised hundreds of millions of oysters on cured shells and restored reef acreage in a harbor that once held enormous oyster populations. A meal’s leftovers become repair, education, and a living shoreline.
Circular restoration: how restaurant shells become habitat, education, and harbor repair.
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