You can imagine that a beer and wine only restaurant goes through a lot of wine bottles, and therefore uses a lot of bottle corks! We recently found an even better solution for glass bottles than recycling (reuse!) and now we're going to be sending in all of the cork that I've been saving up in our biodegradable corn plastic bags to ReCork America, an organization in Napa Valley that accepts used corks from all over the place and then ships them off in huge containers to be made into various products, including--get this--footware!

Most companies that recycle cork create other types of products out of it, such as sheet cork or cork tile (an excellent acoustic and warm underfoot material), and also that springy playground material that even makes adults want to jump around on it! So there are other companies you can send in your used wine corks to (more information and resources here). But ReCork America is the closest place we've found so far and if they max out one use for the cork, they'll just go and find another.

So feel free to bring your corks by the restaurant to add to the collection, and when we get a big enough box, we'll ship them all off together. Call 619-997-8043 to arrange a drop-off time if you need to come by before 5pm.