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Then there's this idea:
http://www.homewetbar.com/wine-cork-bulletin-board-kit-p-227.html

Do a search for:
wine cork bulletin board

To get an idea of the sizes and shapes available to do yourself. Or to buy, if you don't drink.

Thanks True Blue. This would be a great DIY project. I've saved corks and planned on making a cork wreath, but this is much more practical and cutting the corks in half will double the area I can cover with them. I need a bulletin board in my studio anyway and this is a great creative solution.

Great idea

I am going to pretend that my comment which provided this link inspired this post!

Aeonium? What comment? Which link? Oh! Found it!:
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/look/look-horchada-jar-cork-storage-053660

I usually link back to where I suggested or posted something. I don't think they read the comments anyway...er...except one time recently when they pulled some comments.

If they read the comments, they would have been the first ones to blog about stuff, rather than getting it from some other blog place, and that other blog place is probably getting their stuff from reading the comments here. LOL!!!

I still need to understand! These tiles sure may be nice, but you don't get any tiles. You donate your hoarded corks to them and get nothing. They make tiles in quantities they could not without donated corks. If you chose not to donate, you are left with options a) put them in a big jar! or b) throw them in the pots of you plants.

Why don't you throw them out? Exactly what is the deal here with wine corks? I'm not really into wine, but I'm also not into hanging onto trash while I wait to have 10 pounds of it so someone can profit off of my wine habit. It's real estate, people. 10 pounds of cork is (estimated) at least a 30 gallon Hefty bag, if not 2 or 3 of them. Someone else calculate this, it's a bunch more than I would say is reasonable not to have thrown away if you're not going to use it, as it is garbage.

The bulletin board repurpose is cute if small. Any more and you've given over to a cork "theme" in your house.

Most bars and restaurants, at least in LA, will save them for you and then you can turn them in to mulch, which is a better use than saving them in jars.

"You donate your hoarded corks to them and get nothing."

I think that comment just needs to be highlighted. Feel free to replace "hoarded corks" with anything recyclable.

My philosophy is that I try to recycle anything I can - why would I throw something away that I knew could be reused or recycled? I don't mind mailing them either - I just discovered a place where you can mail CDs and their cases for recycling and I'm going to try that out too (thanks AT for the push to take my music all digital!)

This company is very helpful to us winery folk. We are really happy to send the 100's we get a week to make something wonderful. Our floor at the La Crema tasting room is made of cork and we get compliments all the time. Why throw it in the trash if it can help someone else? oh and thanks for the comment true blue.

The fact that you have to save all your corks until you have 10 pounds of it... I guess that's not cabinet space you were using for anything else? A winery or a restaurant, for certain, but I don't have to hoard any other recyclables. I just put them in the right bin any day of the week, they get picked up, I still don't know what day is pick-up. I don't have to get ready a whole box of stuff to bring to Goodwill before I can go, I can bring them a pair of shorts or a coffee mug any time I think of it.

Storing discarded items for long periods of time which are of no use to you or anyone is the issue - well I guess some people drink more wine, throw more parties, and take corks home from other people's parties than I do. And then when you have 10 pounds of wine corks, they're suddenly worth something. Good deeds, wine drinkers.

Of course, I am no neat freak (I might sound like a neat dictator, I'm sure), but I see peril in these suggested habits for people who really have enough on their hands to take care of, now we need a place to save our cork.