What’s New in Portland

I just learned of this fabulous project that you can participate in, no matter where you live. If you drink wine, you’ll want to read on…Yemm & Hart, Ltd. gratefully accepts used wine corks and recycles them into floor tiles.  Cork is a sustainable resource because it can be recycled, but cork actually growing in the wild is becoming rare.  Cork trees support an incredibly rich and diversity number of species.  You may be thinking, oh, I don’t drink enough wine to justify recycling the corks (ya, right!), but every little bit helps.  In 2007, Yemm & Hart Ltd. received 3,000 pounds of wine corks from wine drinkers like us!  Here’s the mailing address:

You have to pay for the postage, but given how much corks weigh, that is probably not much.  Here’s the link to the website if you want to learn more about this cool venture: