Thousands of mussel shells will be used to make benches

This year, the mussel shells from the Lille flea market will be transformed into slats to make benches, France Bleu Nord reported on Wednesday, September 11. Each year, several hundred tons of mussels are eaten during the Lille flea market. For two days, Saturday, September 14 and Sunday, September 15, around twenty piles of mussels will appear in the streets. All will then be collected by the city’s services on Sunday evening.

The collected shells will then be sent to Wasterial, formerly Ethnisi, which will take care of recycling them. The company will therefore crush and grind them in order to transform them into slats to make benches. In previous years, the mussels were used to make wall tiles or ornaments on small tables but also furniture.