Sustainable living buying products made of all natural cork has many benefits. Cork is a natural material that comes from the tree bark of Quercus suber cork oak tree. Worldwide over 2.2 million hectares of cork forest are growing. The average cork tree takes about 25 years to mature enough to produce the high quality cork bark necessary to manufacture products like cork wine stopper, cork handbags, totes, cork jewelry and cork leather wallet accessories.

For example, cork wine stopper sales reached 2.5 billion items and 900 million in the United States says Karrie Brewster, CorkIsCool.com   Global cork production is growing at about 6% annually generating over $1.9 billion in revenues.  

Oregon based retail web stores like Cork Is Cool .com sell a variety of cork made fashion clothing and home accessories made from organic all natural cork. These fine hand crafted cork gifts are imported from top producing countries like Portugal (61% of cork produced worldwide), Spain (29%) and Italy (6%) market share.    

Cork is a renewable clean product that reduces pollutants in our environment. Cork made products are light weight which has made it a useful material in car and airplane manufacturing.

Cork is hypoallergenic making it ideal for women’s fashion accessories like handbags, totes, jewelry, hats, and yoga mats. Cork products are easy to wipe down and clean like cork floors that also are great sound absorbing materials for home construction.

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Cork is cool says Karrie Brewster, it’s really a neat sustainable material that can be found in almost any product. For example, natural cork wine stoppers release 25 times less C02 (carbon greenhouse gases) than an aluminum wine stopper. We find a great many shoppers in Portland Oregon enjoy the ability to use healthy renewable products like cork to make a difference.  Buying products made of cork is a great way to express sustainable living habits for many consumers.  

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