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Plastic, Not Axes, Threatens Cork Forests

Environment (tags: plastic, cork, forests, environmentalists, cork producers )

Sharon
- 427 days ago - news.yahoo.com

TEMPIO PAUSANIA, Sardinia (Reuters) - If you buy a bottle of wine with a metal screw-top or a plastic cork, you won't just be thumbing your nose at tradition. You may also be dooming the world's cork forests.

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Marian E. (166)

Monday August 6, 2007, 10:35 pm
No more cheap wine for me!

Zen Whisperingtree (104)

Tuesday August 7, 2007, 8:43 am
This is so sad, the same thing is happening here in Portugal, in the Alentejo. the cork "industry" is such a non-damaging one, the trees are not cut down, bark is stripped from a section of each one and then that tree is left alone for years.
I never buy wine sealed with anything except corks, a little spoilage is a small price to pay to keep this ancient tradition alive.