Oyster Recovery Partnership

Shell buckets ready for pick up

Yesterday was the official kick off of the Maryland Oyster Recovery Shell Recycling Alliance. I hosted many media entities as well as partner restaurants who are already participating in this great program. This is an extremely easy process as a restaurant. Simply put, instead of throwing your oyster shells away, put a bucket next to the trash can and put the shells in there. Yes, it is really that easy, then once a week, a volunteer from the partnership will come and pick up all the shells.
I feel this is such an important part of cleaning up the bay. I heard a staggering statistic yesterday……….all of the water in the bay used to be filtered by oysters within a couple days, but now, it takes over a year and there is no way that they can keep up. If you think about that for a minute, you can see how important it is for anyone, like me, to get involved.
If you are wondering how you can get involved, check out the oyster recovery website @ http://www.oysterrecovery.org/

Please help us “give back” to the bay!
Check out the media links below to see the progress we made yesterday!

http://wjz.com/local/oysters.watermen.protest.2.1588994.html

http://wjz.com/video/?id=68924@wjz.dayport.com

http://www.wbal.com/tvvideo/

http://www.abc2news.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoid=22134@wmar.web.entriq.net&navCatId=14

http://www.abc2news.com/news/local/story/Shell-Recycling-Starts-In-Bid-To-Help-Bay-Oysters/gC-IHJL6o0yB7vCjTT6Cxw.cspx

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