Recently, Maxwell blogged about storing your saved wine corks in a lovely Horchada jar. Well, for you boozers who aren’t interested in hoarding your corks, you can now donate or redeem them for money through a newer recycling program that will turn your wine stoppers into…
…cork tiles! What started as an experiment by a Missouri-based green materials company, Yemm & Hart, to see if enough people would ship their wine corks for them to produce a viable cork product, seems to have evolved into a successful endeavor.
Yemm & Hart Test Cork Tile
To qualify to receive a fee for your corks, you need to pull together a hefty amount (a minimum of 10 pounds). It seems that non-profit organizations are using wine cork drives to raise money for their respective causes. But if you have less than that and you’re just excited about diverting your cork trash from the landfill, then donate your corks to Yemm & Hart!
How far will you go to recycle your waste, like wine corks?
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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!!!
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.