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Cork is displacing plastics and creating a billion-dollar industry (www.washingtonpost.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/environment@beehaw.org

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[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 6 points 9 months ago

I'm sure stripping the bark doesn't exactly make the trees happy but they don't cut the trees down and that is a win. It's always hard to know what is truth and what is a sales pitch but cork generally gets high marks for sustainability.