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This common beach waste could soon build our cities and slash carbon emissions

Researchers are exploring a groundbreaking way to reduce construction's carbon footprint by using crushed seashell waste as a ...
The Conversation

Attaching seaweed spores to used scallop shells could restore UK’s coastal kelp forests

Newcastle University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Kelp spores are being seeded and grown on small rocks and scallop shells – a seafood waste product – in efforts to regenerate ...
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Hokkaido develops new uses for discarded scallop shells

TOKYO >> Hills of white scallop shells were piling up in Yubetsu, a town facing the Sea of Okhotsk in Hokkaido. They looked like out-of-season snow mounds. The shells blanketed every free space on a ...
Campaign Asia

TBWA/Hakuhodo turns scallop shells into helmets

The village of Sarufutsu in Japan's Soya district, is known for its shellfish industry. As such, it churns out about 40,000 tons of empty shells each year which piles up in huge mounds. Working with ...