The story has been making headlines for several years: when will wine bottles be returned and collected by the SAQ? But there is another part of its wine bottles that are not more recovered and end up in landfills: corks!

You know "bring your own wine" type restaurants that take care to keep your corks and make sure to send them to the sorting center, where they will be valued?

More than a million bottles of wine are consumed each year in the province. Cork corks take years to decompose naturally.

As a second life, corks can become tablets, billboards, soles or shoes.

There are currently about ten municipalities in Quebec that organize the collection of corks.

Over the last few weeks, the city of L'Assomption in Lanaudière has decided to go green and install cork stoppers at various businesses in the city.

Then, these plugs take the road to Alberta, the only province where a companion deals with the recovery of cork. To offset greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, ReCORK planted new cork oaks.

Why Western Canada? Simply because there is no company in the province that can recover and grind the cork. If more municipalities, encouraged by its merchants and restaurant owners, follow suit, recovery companies will soon offer this service.

So, should we also urge the government to encourage the recovery of corks at the same time as the recovery of glass and bottles of wine?