Recycling Cork

There's an interesting article on From the Cellarist which discusses a new organization designed to recycle wine corks. In recent years there has been a large scale effort to recycle wine bottles, as well as to reduce the weight of glass used to make them in the first place. The organization, ReCork America, was created to address the other major component of wine packaging - the cork - and how to put them to good use.

According to the article:

"Wine corks can easily be ground and recycled. They could also be ground and used in compost (though whole corks, says Roger Archey, ReCork's program manager and publicist, are difficult to compost for the same reason they're good wine stoppers; they resist water and don't decompose easily). More likely, the used corks will be shipped back to Portugal by ship to be refashioned into other cork products like flooring or shoe soles."

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