594831 Mon Feb 09 15:53:07 -0800 2009 4 29 Not About Food 0 4402089 Here's info about recycling corks. http://www.care2.com/greenliving/saving-the-corks.html Mon Feb 09 15:53:07 -0800 2009 169792 lgss 1 4402230 What a great idea! Thanks for the link. I hope this program is a wild success and that it quickly spreads to the Midwest, because I am constitutionally unable to throw away a wine cork. I was saving them to donate to The Cork Truck ( http://corktruck.com/artcars.html ), but that wonderful art car has passed away. Besides, the artist got her corks from local restaurants, so she had more than enough without my help... Now I have hundreds and hundreds of corks (at least 15-20 years worth). Ah, well, I've had them for years - I can hang on to them for a few more until this recycling program reaches my town. In the meantime, I can make more trivets. Anne Mon Feb 09 16:37:14 -0800 2009 4402089 12541 AnneInMpls 1 4402674 Real corks are biodegradable - they can go on the compost pile. Mon Feb 09 19:27:43 -0800 2009 4402089 14974 BeaN 1 4432417 I use them in the bottom of planters for drainage when re-potting or creating container gardens. They don't add any weight and as mentioned, are biodegradable, so I don't add any foreign material to the ground when I dump the old soil at the end of the season. Thu Feb 19 10:09:42 -0800 2009 4402089 41042 jacquelyncoffey 1 4433741 HA! Everyone in my department at work likes red wine...I started to make wine cork trivets as a gift for everyone ... I have quite a ways to go on this project...but you can make them into trivets as well as bulletin boards, etc. Whatever corks I have leftover can go to this effort, I'm sure. Thu Feb 19 16:00:34 -0800 2009 4402089 11983 Val