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Corking Sustainablity: A Green Shift from Plastic
An article in the Washington Post by Marta Vidal reports that a city in Portugal called Coruche is known as the “cork capital”. The practice of extracting the cork in the summer months is thousands of years old. It was practicted in the western Mediterranean by Egyptians, Persians, Greeks and Romans. It was used to make fishing gear, sandles, and many types of containers from jugs to barrels.