Virginia environmentalists and officials borrowed an idea from successes in South Carolina: Encourage seafood lovers in Virginia Beach
to recycle their clam and oyster shells instead of tossing them in the
garbage. By next spring, organizers hope to dump 1,500 bushels of
shells into the Lynnhaven River as part of a recycling program that wants to use the shells to build artificial reefs. The project, called Save Oyster Shell, began this summer in Virginia Beach, with help from a grant from the state’s Chesapeake Bay license-plate fund.

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