From Rhode Island comes the story of a woman entrepreneur looking to turn shellfish into chic designer tiling and furniture that’s totally sustainable.

The Mid-Atlantic coastline produces millions of pounds of shellfish waste every year. Beloved for mussels, clams, scallops, crab, oysters, and more, this famous American cuisine is unfortunately wasteful.

Rather than letting it all go to the landfill, and rather than continue working for big design firms in Boston and New York City that crank out huge amounts of plastic waste, Felicia Neuhof founded Shellf Life to turn these shells into a resource.

Profiled in the Boston Globe, the Vermont native developed the processing method—that sees discarded shells turned into beautiful bespoke design elements and furniture—in her kitchen.

She

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