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Tue 20 Jun 2006

How can I reuse or recycle … wine corks?

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Corks Another suggestion from SaraR:

Hi guys. Thanks for the great ideas for what to do with the leftover coffee - I told one of my colleagues and now she’s taking it home to use on her garden.

Anyway, I have another one for you based on another of my naughty addictions - red wine. We have a number of cork-corks and plastic-corks lying around the house and add to the number regularly, but I don’t know what to do with them. Do you have any ideas?

We’re not wine drinkers so I’m not terribly au fait with corks or the plastic “equivalents” so any suggestions for SaraR would be very useful indeed.

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Cut the corks in half, lengthways, and glue them to a piece of hardboard (recycled) to make an attractive pinboard. Only problem is you`ll just have to drink alot more wine!

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The plastic corks can be taken to any Odd Bins stores where they have a box for recycling them.

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If you slice the corks with a sharp knife (mind fingers!) the slices make good little pads to glue to underside of say ornaments to prevent them scratching the surface of wooden shelves etc.

Rosie:)

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I use mine in flower pots instead of crocks - much lighter.

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Use them as pincuishons.

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try this great idea for recycling a whole load of things. My local one says they’ll take my embarrassingly large bag of them (obviously collected over many years!).

http://www.home-education.org.uk/scrap.htm

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When storing / shipping something with protruding points you can use these as safety guards.

I suppose you could use these as fishing floats.

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How about carving a little image out of one of the ends for stamps?

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I use them as a handle for tiny rubber stamps I make:
I carve a stamp from an old eraser and then glue it to the cork.

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Put bits of cork on the ends of your knitting needles, then they don’t go through the corners of bags and jab your fellow passengers on trains.

They also make good firelighters, so I bung all mine in the kindling basket. Just make sure they’re not the plastic ones (note to husband).

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make a wood or whatever frame to put them in, make a cool design, secure them down and you have a trivet to put hot pans on for your dinner table!

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hi,

i would like to send you a photo of my slate/winecork barn framed memo board that i am making…a dozen so far. but, i can not attach it to this reply.

pete
stroudsburg, pa 18360

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Recycle your used wine corks by mailing them to:

Recycling Dept.
The Widget Mfg. Co.
12503 Exchange Dr., Suite 500
Stafford, TX 77477

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you can also cut them diagonally and use to balance an uneven table (old restaurant trick…)

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http://lovemyearth.blogspot.com/2007/05/crazy-for-corks.html

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Make a pinboard, with a driftwood frame.

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Korknisser

http://www.saartjeknits.nl/patterns/Korknisse.html

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Using two corks at a time, hot glue them together. (Make enough pairs so that you have enough to alternate pairs, alternating direction of cork’s lie.) Hot glue sets of two together until you achieve the desired size for a trivet. They’re great gifts and you can solicit corks from wine-drinking friends for donations. Wine-drinking friends love the trivets as gifts.

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Drill holes lengthwise and thread with red beads as spacers for Christmas Tree garland.

I also have many glues to a twig wreath for a large doog wreath.

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Please recycle corks by sending them to:

Coldwater Market
Attn: Cathy
P.O. Box 796
Coldwater, MS 38618

Thanks!

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Here are some more ideas :)

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/541701/how_to_make_recycled_gifts_for_the.html

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I glued some together flat and added a few nails. With a hook of string I can now hang necklaces on the wall on this crazy shaped thing. I like the crocks in plant pots idea very much.

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I will also take winecorks to make projests out of in case anyone wants a Canadian address to send them to. (Real or ‘fake’ corks)

Jackie McKenna
695 Innisfil Beach RD
Innisfil, Ontario,
L9S 4E4

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makes a good bobber if you use a cane pole for fishing

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Cork coaster and trivet set: (via Design Sponge)

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2008/04/diy-project-abigails-cork-trivet-and-coaster-set.html

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I saw a guy make a coffee table out of hundreds of wine corks…it was pretty bad ass. I suggest only doing this if you have lots of time to spare.

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I love cork as material, and have collected cork (also the plastic ones) from wine for years. I made a pot holder, and will continue adding 1/2 corks to the edges until it will be big as a table :)
The real cork version http://www.flickr.com/photos/zisa/2467666369/ and the plastic http://www.flickr.com/photos/zisa/2467666835/
All you need is lots of patience to collect them, x-acto knife, and a hot glue gun (other glue works too but it’s more fun as a tool).

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