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Yemm & Hart is collecting wine cork stoppers with the goal of converting them into a useful self sustaining product - to extend the useful life of this natural resource for decades and to raise awareness of the cork oak tree and its eco-system.
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Recycle your wine corks!
Some of you have baskets of wine corks -- you've collected them for years, knowing that they could be used for *something* but weren't quite sure what. Now, there's a program to collect your wine stoppers!
Yemm & Hart Green Materials is collecting wine corks to recycle into cork flooring -- contributors will be given a discount on cork flooring, or just take away the warm fuzzy feeling that they've done good for the environment and the preservation of cork oaks.
From the Y&H site:
"Did you know that the Cork Montados, the cork oak savannahs, are the continuation of an ancient practice and multi-dimensional use of land around the Mediterranean Sea? The Cork Montados actually protect the biodiversity and certain wildlife that is endangered or on the brink of extinction and are a hedge against desertification caused by global warming as the Sahara creeps into Europe. Together, we can make cork recycling part of the cause to save the Cork Montados. It is important that people not only recycle their corks but make sure that they are not synthetic to begin with. Real cork is sustainable, synthetic and screw caps are not. You can help the Cork Montados by the choice you make for your wine."
Here's more information on corks on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_(material)
Jenn's keywords: cork, wine cork, recycling, cork oak
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