Every Monday and Friday, Long Beach Township’s Oyster Recycling Program truck – now with a new vehicle wrap designed by the Jetty Rock Foundation – visits local restaurants to pick up oyster shells stockpiled following customers’ meals. This community project entails gathering the shells from the partner establishments for use to raise more oysters in Barnegat Bay. Spat (baby oysters) require a hard shell on which to grow; this is what the recycling initiative provides.

“One hundred years ago the Barnegat Bay was rich with oysters,” Jetty writes on the program website,…