Recycling cork reduces the demand placed on cork plantations and saves on resources. Recycling cork in Australia, rather than harvesting and importing from overseas, also reduces energy, carbon emissions and costs associated with transport.
In consideration of reducing the impact on our environment, certain cork flooring
products (though mixed with rubber) have been designed in such a way to deal with
the end of the products life. Under the terms of a “Take Back” Policy, "the product
can safely be removed from its original installation, cleaned up, then returned to
Logic Australia to be reprocessed and manufactured into new flooring products".
(Logic Australia website)
Manufacturer, Logic Australia, has ownership of the world's largest wine
cork recycling plant. Here the cork is ground into various sizes of granules based
on planned usage such as remaking of new flooring.
