Sink Your Shucks Oyster Recycling Program

🦪 Where will you be celebrating National Oyster Day?!

Our partners have you covered! Every restaurant featured here recycles its oyster shells through Sink Your Shucks, giving them a second life restoring oyster reefs instead of sending them to the landfill.

And if you want to shuck at home, don’t forget about our local oyster farms! Many sell fresh oysters by the sack and recycle their shells, too. ♻️

Save this guide for tomorrow, or your next oyster craving! 🙌🏻🤤

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It’s been a BIG quarter for shell recycling! ♻️

More than 60,000 pounds of oyster shell were collected from just our top five recycling restaurants! 🤩

We’re also celebrating partnership anniversaries with:
Black Diamond Oyster Bar – 3 years
Copano's – 2 years
Castaways Seafood & Grill – 1 year

AND two restaurant partners reached new personal records for shell collected! 🎉

Phew, what a great start to summertime ☀️
Help us celebrate these incredible partners by showing them some love in the comments!

Yesterday's oysters are helping build a healthier tomorrow... in Port Aransas! Get to know our partner restaurants in the area in the link below.

Sink Your Shucks Yesterday's Oysters are Helping Build a Healthier Tomorrow When visitors enjoy fresh Gulf oysters at local restaurants, most never think about what happens to the shells afterward. Thanks to the Sink Your Shucks Oyster Recycling Program, those shells get a second life, helping to restore the ve...

🦪 Celebrating 3.5 million pounds of oyster shell reclaimed—and counting. 🎉

What started as a simple idea has grown into a community driven effort to keep oyster shell out of landfills and return it to Texas bays where it can support oyster reef restoration.

This milestone belongs to the restaurants, festivals, oyster farms, volunteers, partners, team members, and supporters who make it possible. Thank you!

We're excited to keep building momentum, one shell at a time! ♻️

See what’s going on in Galveston Bay! Read more from the Houston Chronicle.

A drone spread 1 million oysters in Galveston Bay. Will it help restore reefs? The effort represented a first-of-its-kind approach to revitalizing the Gulf Coast's oyster reefs.

Hear more from Dr. Pollack about oyster reef restoration 🔬🦪

Harte Research Institute shares how oysters are benefiting the Coastal Bend Harte Research Institute is restoring oyster reefs in the Coastal Bend, recycling millions of pounds of shell to improve water quality and protect shorelines.