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Recycling to Restore
SRA Around the Bay:
Happy Holidays! Thanks for all your hard work in seperating out and recycling your oyster shell. This limited resource is vital to our restoration efforts and every shell does make a difference! Curious about what your restaurant has recycled this year? Send us an email.
This month we are excited to announce the Alexandria market is now included in our recycling network. Please let us know if you are aware of any oyster restaurants that would be interested in participating or would like to be added to our routes!
We have also added 3 public drop off locations at Anne Arundel County Recycling centers. For full story click here.
2012 has been a successful year for ORP and our Shell Recycling Alliance. This growing program has expanded to over 160 restaurants, caterers, and seafood distributors. We expect to finish this year collecting more than 600 tons of shell (8 million shells) and we could not do this without your combined efforts.
Want to specifically know how many oysters your restaurant has recycled? Send us an email!
Plant It Forward,
Bryan Gomes
"Shell" us what you think!
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Building Your Brand Through SRA
Educate Your Customers! 
Are your customers aware of your restaurant's good deeds and participation in the Shell Recycling Alliance? ORP has logos and language for you to include on your menu, website, and Facebook page. Be sure to educate your customers that your restaurant is going green!
We also provide marketing materials and training for your restaurant to share this important message. We have low-profile table tents, rack cards, static "Zagat-style" window clings and hostess placards with easel backs that read "SRA Member." Do you have agood idea for how to better reach your customers? If so, please let us know.
For more information contact Bryan at bgomes@oysterrecovery.org
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What your help allows us to achieve
With support like yours, 2012 was ORP's most successful and targeted planting years to date. With our coalition of restoration partners, we planted 634 million spat on shell including planting nearly 100 acres of oyster reefs in the Harris Creek oyster sanctuary. Harris Creek is the site of the largest oyster restoration effort ever conducted in the Chesapeake Bay, or anywhere on the East Coast. Your contributions help our restoration goals of increasing oyster populations to levels not seen in 100 years.
ORP also recruited 70 new participating restaurants to the Shell Recycling Alliance effort and collected nearly 16,000 bushels of shell!
Together we are growing and accomplishing more than ever before. All our shell and oysters will provide valuable habitat for important marine life in the Bay. Plus, as filter-feeders these baby oysters will continue to filter billions of gallons of Bay water as they feed and grow. |
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Beers That Give Back
You have oysters, but does your restaurant have the perfect oyster beer?
Flying Dog Brewery and Port City Brewery have created delicious oyster stouts that can be paired with your oyster selections. Not only are these beers great tasting, they both donate a portion of their proceeds to the Oyster Recovery Partnership!
Flying Dog Brewery - Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout
Pearl Necklace is brewed with Rappahannock River Oysters and is the perfect compliment to everyone's favorite aphrodisiac - whether they are grilled, fried, stuffed, or raw. A dry stout featuring local oysters, Pearl Necklace was the brainchild of Flying Dog, Rappahannock River Oysters, and Baltimore's Woodberry Kitchen.
Available year round both on tap and in bottles.
Port City Brewing Company - Port City Revival Stout
Port City Revival Stout is a limited edition beer made with oysters from War Shore Oyster Company and brewed in the British and Irish tradition of oyster stouts. War Shore's Chesapeake Bay oyster shells are steeped in the brewing water to add mineral content and then the oysters and their liquor are added to the brew during the boil. The oysters add a subtle whiff of a sea breeze, a slight briny character and a smooth textural element to the beer.
Available on tap only in select oyster bars and restaurants in DC metro area. |
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"Shell" Us What You Think!
ORP is continuously working to make the Shell Recycling Alliance a great program for everyone involved. Please respond to this email with any feedback you have on how we can improve the effort and recruit new members to help our Bay! |
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YOUR IMPACT ON OUR BAY!
The Shell Recycling Alliance recycled approximately 16,000 bushels of oyster shells in 2012! These shells will eventually become homes for approximately 75 million oysters!
ORP would like to recognize one of our largest Shell Recycling Alliance members - The Old Ebbitt Grill. In addition to the hundreds of bushels the restaurant recycles each year, the Old Ebbitt Grill recycled 120 bushels of shell from their annual Oyster Riot alone. Old Ebbitt Grill also generously donates a portion of the Oyster Matinee proceeds to ORP which are used in our restoration efforts!
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Consider sharing our video about
the Shell Recycling Alliance
on YouTube!
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Chesapeake Bay Journal:
Harris Creek, a tributary of Maryland's Choptank River, is the site of the largest ever oyster restoration effort in the Chesapeake - or, for that matter, anywhere along the East Coast.
Over the next three to five years, state and federal agencies will be converting hundreds of acres of river bottom into vibrant oyster bars by spreading shell, rebuilding reefs and planting hatchery-reared spat.
Over time, they hope a thriving, oyster community will transform the Harris Creek ecosystem with tens of millions of oysters that will help clear its murky water, creating conditions in which underwater grass beds can thrive and attract fish that like oyster reef habitats, such as spadefish, tautog, sheepshead and black sea bass.
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Brought to you by:  Oyster Recovery Partnership 1805A Virginia Street
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
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