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PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A new local effort is turning restaurant leftovers into a powerful tool for cleaner water. Oyster shells from The Breakersand Cod & Capers Seafood are getting a second life — helping restore the Lake Worth Lagoon through a new recycling and restoration program led by the Palm Beach County Fishing Foundation.

Foundation executive director Tom Twyford said until recently, Palm Beach County wasn't part of the oyster restoration movement and that the county is catching up to a growing national trend in oyster restoration.

"We really weren't recycling oysters in Palm Beach County, and we saw an opportunity to collect them for locally based restoration," he said. "We're pretty much late to the party on this one, I got to be honest with you."

Each week, Twyford

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