by Admin | Jul 4, 2019 | General
Cork House by Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton has won the RIBA South Award 2019, the RIBA South Sustainability Award 2019 – sponsored by Michelmersh and the RIBA National Award 2019. Designed with immense attention to detail, Cork House...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2019 | Environment
The Portuguese cork producer Amorim has published a report showing a comparison of the environmental impacts and energy used to produce aluminium, plastic and cork materials and the carbon emissions involved. Cork oak forests and the natural cork products derived from...
by Admin | Aug 13, 2018 | Environment
Cork is too useful a material to be used only once and discarded, and many wine corks are now collected for recycling into a range of other cork products. Recycling corks is a major fund-raising and environmental activity around the world. In Australia, the proceeds...
by Admin | Mar 9, 2017 | Environment
A growing list of vineyards, restaurants, wine bars and pubs are now saving their used wine, prosecco and champagne cork stoppers for recycling with Recorked UK, the UK’s leading cork recycling scheme. The list now includes Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage...
by Admin | May 21, 2010 | Environment
Announcing a new on-line education resource for primary school teachers and children learning about sustainable development: www.planetcork.org “Come and join me on Facebook” says Corkie. With real birdsong, colour posters of trees,...
