Cork is cool

Cork is really cool environmentally friendly stuff that comes from cork oak trees and it is mainly grown and harvested in Portugal. It takes 25 years before a tree is ready to produce cork. After importing about 550 tonnes of this great stuff to Australia, we only recycle around 5% of it.

So it's not cool to use it only once in your wine or champagne stopper. After you celebrate and pop that cork this Christmas, pass it on - lots of groups now collect these (in Australia see Planet Ark recycling and type in Cork) and then the cork can be re-used as flooring, rather than tip filler, saving energy - that's the other part of the energy equation. And isn't is great to think that your celebration cork will be part of someone's home for many more years!