recycling your seafood shells is possible during the holidays
On this December 24, it’s time for the New Year’s Eve meal. What if this year, you recycle your seafood shells? Scallops, clams, oysters … The Toulouse company Providential shells organize indeed the “recycle our shells” operation until January 5, 2022.
In this context, specially dedicated bins were installed yesterday at four fishmongers from the pink city : La marée Toulousaine (Carmes), Chez Jeannot (Jeanne d’Arc), La marinière (Victor-Hugo market), and La poissonnerie du Bonheur (Saint-Cyprien).
A raw material and not a waste
“We are already working with oyster farmers but on 150,000 tonnes of shells produced annually, less than 5% is recycled. So the idea is to tell people not to throw away their shells but to rinse them and bring them back to their fishmonger “, explains Daniel Moukoko, founder of Providentiel Coquillages, contacted by The Independent Opinion.
Subsequently, the company will revalue this famous rubbish. “We started from the observation that the shell is not a waste but on the contrary a raw material with multiple uses“, declares the initiator of the process.
Recycled shells… as food for the chickens!
Indeed, Providentiel Coquillages transforms Occitan’s organic shellfish waste into new products, for example poultry feed. “The idea started with the hens because the animal and its eggs have need calcium, of which the shells are an important source. This is the first product we sell, “says Daniel Moukoko.
But the marine product can also serve as a fertilizer for organic farming, natural mineral mulch, pearlescent ingredients for cosmetics, and can even be used in water treatment. “The circular economy and zero waste are really our DNA”, assures the founder of the marine recycling company.
The objective: to create a full-fledged permanent sorting bin
Daniel Moukoko is delighted that the authorities like the project and that the fishers are participating in the game, eventually, he is already seeing further. “The goal is, within one or two years, to install bins permanently as it may already be the case for paper, plastic and glass. Currently, it’s a first experiment“, he specifies. In the meantime, everyone can do a little green gesture for the holidays.