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Posted on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 at 8:05 pmWhat is the best, environmentally friendly, way to recycle Used Wine Bottle Corks?
I have just been turning over a compost heap which we started using 5 years ago and finished using 2 years ago. It took all our organic kitchen waste as well as garden rubbish. Everything we put in it has rotted down nicely - except the Wine Bottle corks, which have emerged almost unaltered.
Clearly, conventional, low-tech, garden composting isn't the answer. What other and better solutions can people offer, apart from sending them off to landfill via the dustbin?
What Are Creative Ways to Recycle Wine Cork?
If the concept of wine cork recycling catches on, recycling wine cork in the US may someday be as simple as recycling newspapers or soda cans. In the meantime, however, those who live in America can recycle their Wine Corks through a few creative means.
While some people have donated wine corks to children's museums, for use in displays and dioramas, others have made wreaths and decorative pieces out of old wine corks. Some people wire together wine corks and make hot pads while others suggest gluing sliced wine corks to the bottom of vases and knickknacks, as a means to keep these items from scratching tables and shelves. People have even found old wine corks useful as door stops, knife scrubbers, and pin cushions.
Just as wine should never go to waste, neither should wine corks. A highly useable material, there are several ways wine corks can be recycled, even if it's not routinely done on a national level. With all the kinds of packaging that can destroy the Earth, cork is an exception. A special material, cork is able to protect wine and the world by putting a stop to wastefulness.
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