New York is rebuilding its dead oyster reefs with shells scraped off restaurant plates, and more than 100 million live oysters are already back in the harbor filtering the water, in a city where the reefs were once so thick that ships had to steer around them

A century after pollution killed New York's oyster beds, the city is using discarded shells from restaurants to resurrect them, transforming dinner plate waste into a working ecosystem that's already filtering millions of gallons of harbor water daily. The post New York is rebuilding its dead oyster reefs with shells scraped off restaurant plates, and more than 100 million live oysters are already back in the harbor filtering the water, in a city where the reefs were once so thick that ships had to steer around them appeared first on Space Daily .