There were times when the large American city of New York was considered the world capital of oysters. The amount of these mollusks in the metropolitan market was so impressive that the oysters were sold at a more than affordable price, and not so much in restaurants as in tents with street food.

But time passed, the bays in which oysters grew clogged with sewage. In addition, coral reefs disappeared from New York City's water environs, and oysters almost disappeared from the city’s ecosystem.

To rectify the situation and bring everything back to normal, volunteers and students of New York secondary schools decided to join forces and fight to restore the former number of mollusks.

Therefore, a public organization was created, the main purpose of which was to grow a billion oysters for New York bays. The project is called "Billion Oyster", and its participants promise to make every effort to ensure that over the next sixteen years, New York will regain the status of the world oyster capital.

Today, employees of seventy American restaurants have become partners with volunteers and schoolchildren. Which do not throw out used oyster shells, but transfer them to the assets of a public organization.

Volunteers grow oysters in special boxes in the conditions of school laboratories, after which they are placed in a special tank with oyster shells at the bottom. Once the oysters are firmly attached to the shells, they are sent to New York Bay.

At the same time, Billion Oyster members are trying to find solutions to the problem of waste and waste water. To date, the volunteers have managed to grow and send over thirty million oysters to the bay.