Hockey sticks are helping to save the environment off the coast of Florida. Researchers there are using broken sticks to create reefs that resemble the natural thing to help restore habitats for oysters. Each "reef" can hold up to 400 oysters.
Rink2Reef, the organization behind the habitats, says hockey sticks don't break down easily, so using them to create the reefs actually helps solve two problems at one time. The reefs help filter water, around 20,000 gallons a day when they are fully functional.
“What we've done is we've taken these broken hockey sticks and we've repurposed them, built these simple link-and-log structures,” Bob Wasno, resource coordinator at FGCU's Vester Marine and Environmental Sciences Research Field Station, told WINK. “And with these link-and-log structures tethered on our local docks, oysters are able to grow all over this vast area.”
There's word the NHL may want to join in on the project.
Source: Inside Edition
