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Cork

How to dispose of natural cork stopper.

Recommended answerNatural cork can be reused or collected through specialist cork-recycling programmes.
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Recommended route

Use a retailer, winery or cork collection where available.

Before disposal or return

  1. Keep natural cork separate from plastic stoppers.

Do not

Do not assume plastic-lookalike stoppers are cork.

Reference sources

U.S. EPA — common recyclablesOpen source ↗Recycle Now — item recycling guideOpen source ↗

Checked 2026-08-16

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