March 30, 2025

Shell to Shore is an Oyster shell recycling non-profit in Athens, GA Oysters are a natural resource, a keystone species, and ecosystem engineers, filtering water and regenerating themselves.

Oysters are a natural resource, a keystone species, and ecosystem engineers, filtering water and regenerating themselves. By transporting shells from your table to the shore, we are diverting shells from the landfill and reconnecting this natural resource to its coastal home. Recycled shells play a pivotal role in helping create many types of intertidal structures to help combat rising sea levels and help proliferate all types of sea life. Plainly put, the more oyster shells that we recycle and return to the ocean, the more of our shoreline and ocean we can help preserve!

Many oyster producers from all long the east coast, bringing 800 to 1,000 oysters, drove many miles to be part of this great event. Several local restaurants also participated bringing samples of their signature dishes.

This was an extremely fun and well run fund raising event with some very tasty oysters in the Bottleworks complex – its best to come early.