CORKS
Thank you for uncorking this corker of an idea with us!
We need to keep corks out of the waste stream and we need cork because it is nature’s little buoys for our all oil spill booms!
PLEASE NOTE: This page is under construction, we will be adding more and more photos shortly. Thank you for your patience and support.
The Ask
Please donate your household and restaurant corks by posting them as a gift on our environmental social media platform for Humanity Adding Solutions. It takes a few seconds to sign up and post, we never sell or share any information, we never spam, this is purely for matching surplus with needs efficiently.
We are desprately seeking the help of wine connaisseurs everywhere! We need your corks!
Please don’t throw them away, think of us and keep a little bag for Matter of Trust to plunk them in when you’re popping open the bubbly… We thank you! And so does Mother Nature!
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What We Do With The Corks
We accept all natural and synthetic wine corks, as well as the metal caps and wires that come with champagne bottles.
Natural corks are used in our 100% natural floatation oil spill clean up booms made of hair and pet fur clippings. You shampoo because hair collects oil (and now oil spills)!
Synthetic corks are used in our new project researching insulation cubes made from laundry lint (microplastic fibers) and synthetic hair wigs, extensions and synthetic bottle corks. These cubes are to be used in Tiny Homes for sound proofing and temperature regulation insulation.
Even the wires and caps can be useful at recyclable decorations for packages and as little chairs for Hairy Fairy Gardens that use our Hair Mulch to help planting projects in schools!
Together we are sorting waste into resources!
We would be so grateful if...
Once your bag of corks is full, you could post it as a gift on our platform for Humanity Adding Solutions TheHumSum.org it’s fast, free, private and we never spam.
The nearest felting hub making hair boom / insulation cubes or school garden will request your gift. Please let us know you can mail it or if they need to pick it up.
Why this matters?
Wherever we see useful surplus that is going into landfill, we ask can we turn this waste into resources. We needed to add floatation buoys to the ends of our hair booms and adding natural, recycled, donated restaurant / household wine corks is the perfect answer! Nature provides if we ask the right questions… what floats in the wild?
What can I do?
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