The healthier the Bay, the better our business is. The healthier the Bay’s oyster population is, the healthier the Bay. “We recycle everything - even our food scraps for fertilizer. It makes so much sense to recycle the oysters to the ORP to be used for baby oyster spat on shell planting into the Bay” said Dick Franyo, Owner Boatyard Bar & Grill Annapolis. “The Boatyard Bar & Grill sells a huge amount of oysters. The program is the nation’s largest with nearly 200 member businesses and over 70 public shell dropsites in Maryland, Washington D.C., Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Since the Shell Recycling Alliance’s launch in 2010, collection efforts have kept 9,030 tons out of area landfills, saved local businesses ~ $700,000 in waste collection fees, and provided enough substrate to support the planting of 1.29 billion spat-on- shell in local waters. “Still, this amount helped us surpass an important milestone of 250,000 bushels collected, enough to fill over 3.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools!” “2021 was a pandemic-recovery year for the Shell Recycling Alliance with 26,000 bushels of shell recycled,” said Tommy Price, program manager.
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