Amorim Cork produces more than five billion of the approximately 13 billion cork bottle stoppers ... single ounce of the ...

"For every single tonne of ... compressed to make cheaper stoppers and a whole range of other products. Cork oaks grow for an average of 25 years before their first bark can be removed and 18 ...

Cork oak trees fully regrow their bark every decade or so ... for wine bottlers to use natural cork stoppers, but the cost of polluting the planet with single-use plastics is far greater.

Actually, “twist” might be the wrong word, because the campaign seeks to encourage wineries to use cork stoppers rather than ... the trees” to harvest cork bark. “I’ve heard people ...

Portugal, the world's leading cork ... cork stoppers and posted sales of 985 million euros (one billion dollars) in 2023, slightly lower than in the previous year. Cork is made from the bark ...