Wine Rack Store Blog

We’ve talked about recycling wine bottles off your wine rack many times on this blog. I haven’t really mentioned the other important part of wine storage, the cork. Corks are mostly made from the Cork Oak tree. Wineries are no longer limited to these wooden corks. They also use plastic and some even use special glass ones.

Although wine corks can not be reused on fresh bottle of wine, they do have other uses. Corks can be ground up and used in flooring and wall products. Because of this, recycling companies are experimenting with collecting them along with the glass bottles.

Collecting these corks is not easy. It is costly and time consuming. It takes 300,000 corks to make one ton. That is a heck of a lot of corks. I am a big fan of recycling but I am not sure how I feel about this. I am glad people keep trying to recycle more and more things but sometimes I think it costs more energy (and time and money) to reuse these materials than responsibly making new ones.

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