Cork flooring hailed as sustainable material
23rd September 2009
Adam Lutsky, co-founder of the Green Living Centre, told Westport News that the flooring industry is now performing the job that wine bottlers used to do with regards to stripping bark from cork trees.
The trees need to have bark removed regularly or they will die and an increasing use of screw-top and composite bottle stoppers had caused this practice to dwindle before flooring started to bring it back.
Mr Lutsky's business partner Brian Cleary explained that there has been a growing interest in sustainable flooring in recent years and suggested that cork is a particularly notable example of this product segment because it boasts "so much variety and style".
Gerould Sabin, who owns Elements of Green, also recently commented on the appeal of cork flooring, telling the Kansas City Star that it is "rapidly renewable".
