Florida Dumped Half a Million Tons of Oyster Shells Offshore… Look What Formed

Florida Dumped Half a Million Tons of Oyster Shells Offshore… Look What Formed On a warm Friday night in 2007, somewhere along the waterfront in Cedar Key, Florida, someone finished a dozen raw oysters and pushed the empty shells to the edge of the plate. A busser scraped them into a plastic bucket behind the kitchen. On any other night, that would have been the end of the story. Those shells would have ridden a garbage truck to a county landfill and sat there forever.