As a journalist, Gabriella Sotelo covers the environment, climate change, and agriculture. She has a bachelor's in Journalism/Environmental Studies from NYU. Plastic has become ubiquitous in the ...

cork socks/ Lloyd Alter/CC BY 2.0 There are many uses for cork beside just sheets. Pellets of a smaller ... the perfect building material. It lasts forever; this pile of cork is recycled from ...

Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and Romans used the material to make fishing gear ... ground into granules and pressed together to form cork sheets or blocks. “Even cork dust is used to produce ...

Cork is a versatile material used for everything from wine ... The cork is then sliced into sheets, cleaned, and further processed to create the final products. Whether it's used for wine corks ...

CBS News - Video How cork — the same material used to seal wine bottles — could save the planet Posted: December 7, 2024 | Last updated: April 23, 2025 There's no end to the uses for cork, a ...

What they are also well known for is their use and manufacturing of the natural Cork material they earnestly harvest from Cork Oak trees. One Cork Oak can yield about 100 pounds of cork bark ...

Cork is enjoying a renaissance. Over the past 10 years, the fortunes of this humble material have risen to see it star in high-profile design projects ranging from Herzog & de Meuron’s ...

As well as being a superb wine stopper, cork is a unique and versatile material. Cork was used by ancient civilisations for millennia, and we are now rediscovering its incredible properties.