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"It’s lunchtime at the Original Oyster House in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and
Jeremy Sullivan is digging into a plate of delectable mollusks — literally.
Rather than eating them straight out of the shell, he uses a fork to scoop his
oysters out and drops them quietly into his mouth.
Cecilia Mace, the restaurant’s marketing director, stands nearby and is not
having it. She offers Sullivan some advice to make the experience more
enjoyable.
“Pick up the shell and suck it out of there,” Mace says while laughing.
Sullivan agrees, and the resulting slurp is worth the effort.
When Sullivan finishes his order, his discarded shells will go into a container
separate from the restaurant’s other trash. That’s because instead of ending up
in a trash heap, they’ll soon find a second life through the Alabama Coastal
Foundation‘s (ACF) Oyster Shell Recycling Program.
The program cleans up the shells and tosses them back into the nearby ocean to
help rebuild Alabama’s coastline.
Mace said the Original Oyster House was one of the first restaurants to pilot
the program. Before the program launched in 2016, the state paid millions to
buy back oyster shells. Mark Berte, the executive director of the ACF, said the
program was decades in the making before a grant from the National Fish and
Wildlife Foundation helped make it a reality.
“Most restaurants are putting them in their dumpster and they’re putting them
in a landfill, and these oyster shells are like gold,” Mace said."
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