GreenFloors
Cork is environmentally correct as well as improving health
and comfort for human indoor living. In our homes, cork floors create a
warm, comfortable, resilient surface that is gentle underfoot, and is
anti-microbial.
From harvest to production to installation, cork is
environmentally sustainable, non-toxic, and healthy. Cork is a truly
sustainable “green-building” material. Trees are grown and the bark is
harvested in the centuries old tradition without harming either the trees
or their habitat. Bark is initially sent to a factory to create stoppers
for wine bottles. Cork flooring is then created from post-industrial
by-product of the bottle-stopper industry. This ‘waste’ material is ground
up and then formed into sheets using minimal amounts of adhesive to bind
the particles together under high pressure. |