Tokyo advertising agency TBWA\Hakuhodo and plastics manufacturer Koushi Chemical Industry Co have created Shellmet, a hard hat made from discarded scallop shells and recycled plastic. The product was ...

Scallops' soft bodies are well-protected by their hard shells, so … could those same shells protect human heads? That question was asked by the Japanese designers of the Shellmet, which is a helmet ...

Usami and his team are now transforming discarded shells into a new material called Shellstic—like plastic, but with about 20% to 50% shells. After one year of development, the first major product to ...

Don’t panic in the face of whole scallops. Adam Geringer-Dunn from Greenpoint Fish and Lobster is here to demonstrate that shucking and prepping this juicy bivalve is actually a breeze. Buying ...

Since scallop shells contain over 95% calcium carbonate, they can be reused in various fields. (Pixabay pic) As scallop season gets underway in France’s Brittany region, let’s have a look at some ...

As scallop season gets underway in France’s Brittany region, let us look at some innovative ways on how to “upcycle” the shells of this mollusk, thanks to its composition featuring high rates of ...