The Oyster Recovery Partnership has launched Maryland’s first Oyster Shell Recycling Alliance. Together with more than 20 restaurants, catering companies and seafood wholesalers, the regional oyster shucking community and volunteers. The Alliance will focus on collecting used oyster and clam shells from restaurants and caterers in the Baltimore/Annapolis/Washington, DC metro area. Oyster shell is a limited resource that needs to be recycled. Reused oyster shell provides crucial natural habitat for new oysters in the Chesapeake Bay and is used exclusively by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point hatchery for its oyster setting process.