KSJ collects corks for cranes

Cork is an important natural raw material and far too good to throw away. That's why Kommunalservice Jena (KSJ) is now accepting bottle corks as an official NABU collection point, thus supporting a campaign for the protection of cranes.

The corks are collected in a separate and appropriately labeled brown garbage can at the recycling center at Löbstedter Straße 56 in Jena and later recycled. They are used to make ecological insulation material for house construction. The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the preservation of the Spanish cork oak forests where cranes spend the winter.

In this way, KSJ wants to help ensure that as many of the 1.2 billion bottle corks that are produced in Germany every year can be recycled. They could be used to produce 32,000 cubic meters of ecologically valuable insulating granulate for house construction. So far, only a tenth of the corks have been recycled.

The corks can be handed in during the normal opening hours of the recycling center.