Review by Michael Smith (Veshengro)
The TerraCycle Corkboard is made entirely of corks that would normally end up in a landfill with a wooden frame. Price US$19.99.
This very useful corkboard made by TerraCycle, which is an ideal message center for home and office, may have originated as an idea from a DIY project with wine corks that has been making the rounds for a number of years.
The TerraCycle corkboard is made in the USA, it now comes fully assembled, in a stylish black frame of 16 x 16 inches, thus being small enough to fit almost anywhere while still big enough to be useful. Just the right size, in fact, I would say, for sure.
The board is made from waste wine corks collected through cork brigades fitted into a wood frame to create a fun way to pin up notes and clear up landfills.
The TerraCycle corkboard is a great way of reusing cork stoppers from wine bottles and keeping them out of the landfills. This despite the fact that cork is a natural products and material, the bark of a tree, in fact, that would biodegrade, that is to say, compost. Much better to put those corks to use, however, in the way done here in this case by TerraCycle.
TerraCycle alo now is going to produce such boards from synthetic corks and those will be called “corcboard”.
This should go down very well too and is even better still as here it is a plastic material, otherwise non-recyclable, that is being kept out of the waste stream and landfills.
As a rating I am giving this TerraCycle product 5 stars out of 5 with an extra star for “Made in USA”. OK, so this makes it then 6 out of 5 and I am bad at maths but so what...
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TerraCycle Corkboard – Product Review
