Dinner scraps are rebuilding California's lost oyster reefs
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The Shells for Shorelines program in Orange County is converting restaurant oyster shells into habitat material where new oysters settle and grow, directly restoring degraded reef ecosystems through a circular waste-reduction approach.
This does not prove the program will achieve full ecosystem restoration at scale, nor that it addresses all causes of oyster reef decline (water quality, disease, etc.).
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