Hmmm: Wine Cork Recycling

Want to recycle all of the those wine corks from the hundreds of bottles of wine you drink every year?

We've been putting them in our green garbage which ultimately winds up in a massive compost heap somewhere in CA but now there is another alternative, Yemm & Hart.

Yemm & Hart is collecting wine cork stoppers with the goal of converting them into a useful self sustaining product - to extend the useful life of this natural resource for decades and to raise awareness of the cork oak tree and its eco-system.

At the end of 2007, approximately 3,000 lbs have been received. Some of these corks have gone into experimentation and sample production.

When the Wine Cork Tile samples are all labeled and boxed, every contributor of wine corks that we have a valid address for, will receive the promised samples.

Send your wine and Champagne cork stoppers prepaid (paid by sender) to:
Wine Cork Recycling
Yemm & Hart Ltd
425 North Chamber Dr
Fredericktown MO 63645

It looks like they are in the beginning stages of transitioning to paying for wine corks (minimum weight is 10lbs) but they still accept contributions. For more info check out Yemm & Hart's website by clicking here.

P.S. If you get shipments of wine check with your local wine shop or liquor store to see if they will reuse the styrofoam or cardboard shipping containers (odds are they will because those things aren't cheap!). Our wine store is taking the ones we get which is great.