Simply Green Quick Tip: Wine Not?
Time to pull out all those extra champagne and wine corks from the holiday festivities. If you only have a few corks, shave off slivers and glue them to the bottom of an uneven chair or table legs. It’ll keep them steady and — since cork is soft and springy — it will protect the floors, too. If you have a bunch of corks, combine them together inside of a large pipe clamp (available from the hardware store plumbing department). Screw the clamp tight around the corks and you’ve made an instant trivet! Use it in the kitchen to keep surfaces protected from hot pots.
-Danny Seo
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Those are great Ideas!
I break them into tiny pieces and add them to my garden and plants. They Aerate,, and hold moisture for the plants.
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I’m like Erin, I use my mine as mulch for my indoor plants to retain moisture. I also combine them in tall vases and use as centerpieces. I’ve also seen them used as wreaves, but haven’t tried making them myself.
My mom is on vacation in Italy right now and has been saving me all of her wine corks! The ones that don’t have holes in them, we use to cork our own homemade wine…and the ones that do have holes, we’ll be cutting into smaller pieces and either gluing or sewing them together to make coasters. =)
what about gluing them to a simple framed mirror or maybe run some wire through them to connect them to make a door mat
glue them to an old painting or frame with backing to make a neat looking bulletin board.
I have been using Erin’s potting idea for some time now. I replace pot shards with whole corks. You can transfer a root-bound pot directly to the ground and leave the corks in place.
About recycling…
Check out our Web site at http://www.recorkamerica.com. You are welcome to send us your surplus corks.
Cheers,
Roger
I made the greatest looking bulletin board from a vintage frame. Just superglued them to the backing in the frame alternating the corks in a pattern. It looks great. Made push pins to match with champagne corks. Just drilled out a hole and glued thumbtacks into them. Took lots of wine drinking but we prevailed.
I glue them on cardboard cones and make xmas trees.
I love the bulletin board idea! I sliced my corks into coin type pieces and sewed them together to make coasters and trivets.
They make THE best bulletin board seriously. We’ve recycled corks around here forever now doing that. We glue them all together on a plain board in whatever pattern we choose. They tend to look more I don’t know “authentic” I suppose if there isn’t a frame around them…that way they show off the natural side alot better. They are nice and sturdy and you pretty much never have to worry about buying or even making a replacement once you do it. Green AND practical…gotta love it!