Cork Handles
NYC x Design
Cork is as natural, sustainable, renewable, and good for the environment as we can imagine a material to be. The cork that makes up natural wine stoppers comes from the bark of cork oak trees that grow in Mediterranean Europe and North Africa.
When the cork is harvested the trees aren't cut down, instead, their bark is carefully stripped away by hand in a skilled trade that's passed down over generations. It takes between nine and twelve years for the bark to grow back thick enough to be harvested again. After harvest, as the trees begin to grow back their bark, they suck up to five times more carbon from the atmosphere. They do this to fuel the photosynthesis that the regrowth requires.
When the cork is harvested the trees aren't cut down, instead, their bark is carefully stripped away by hand in a skilled trade that's passed down over generations. It takes between nine and twelve years for the bark to grow back thick enough to be harvested again. After harvest, as the trees begin to grow back their bark, they suck up to five times more carbon from the atmosphere. They do this to fuel the photosynthesis that the regrowth requires.
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︎ quewenxin1107@gmail.com