Cork: Is this nature's most versatile material? - BBC REEL
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2024
- As well as being a superb wine stopper, cork is a unique and versatile material. Cork was used by ancient civilisations for millennia, and we are now rediscovering its incredible properties.
It is light, impermeable, and used to produce everything from clothing to spacecrafts. Cork is harvested without cutting down any trees, which makes it a reliable and sustainable material. It is also reusable and recyclable.
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Commissioned by: Griesham Taan
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Very informative to know all the uses of cork. Well Done.
That is a brilliant video, bravo and thank you! 😊
I'll gladly second that.
I love cork and it is so freaking expensive now.
22-23 times. The lifespan of a tree is 200 years. It can be harvested every 9 years, so 200/9=22.22
I have a black hat since 2008 and it survived mostly to the sun but also very good with rain.
And don't take my sweat as the others and wasn't expensive (almost the same).
Lots of those uses are just clugged together for fashions sake, BAMBOO is the most versatile natural renewable resource.
Bamboo is an incredible natural material, but I would put both hemp and cork ahead of it for versatility, just for their insulation properties alone. Few things grow more quickly and easily than hemp. Cork is also virtually fireproof. Can you say that about bamboo?
Cork has many more uses than bamboo
@@jackspencer8290 And the acorn of this oak is eatable too, if you boil it I mean.
I laughed so hard when they switched to him so that she wouldn't have to say cork in a British accent. You know those old jokes about how the British do not pronounce their Rs?
"What kind of automobile does a crow drive?" " "A caw"
"What do you shove into a wine bottle?" "A c__k".
I know a lot about cork before, but I glad to see the industry growing. I only worry about that if the demand growing there will be no enough land, as it’s can be produced in a very specific climate. Hope it’s not going in the way as tobacco/ banana/ cocoa/ avocado fields, to the hands of gangs…
It can only be harvested every 9 years and it has to wait for 15 years before the 1rst harvest.
@@SiRcErOn_YuLmEr so what is your point?
@@fabolvaskarika7940 Because of such delays, I'm pretty sure gangs will never be interested in such a business. They want easy monney and short term investments. In Portugal we say that planting a cork oak tree is done gift made to grandchildren. So before being able to benefit from this, those people will have to be extremely patient.
The cork tree would say yes
I will never look at a wine bottle cork the same. Even more so that, knowing that it is recyclable and being thrown away.
Whaaaat? Who throws that away? We always keep ours to kork up bottles for storage, to cut it into bits when we need sth. soft between components e.g. metal table leg" & "wooden floor". They can be great for crafting if there are kids around. They're fantastic for animal related crafting (if they are real n proper korks. There are sometimes fake korks in bottles that are white-ish and those kind of soak up grime which kork kind of doesn't in the same way!)
Our neighbour loves to celebrate or have wine with friends on game nights. And she's not much of a crafter. Once we told her we use that stuff, she started to collect and give us hers. Finally more supply! So definitely let ppl around you know! 🤩
@@KxNOxUTA My son is 24, we are way past the “arts and crafts” phase.
Although I do keep them for corking my home brew wine.
I have a batch of apple wine that’ll be sufficiently mature in another month.
@@nzs316beyond "arts & crafts", cork has lots of uses around the home, studio and garage.
similar to pomelo peel or foam
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Hi
can you live in a cork house?
This video was funded by the cork industry 😂
Its kind of lame when they want you to guess what the video is all about in the beginning when it's literally written right below the video and you clicked on a link because what it said it was about in the first place peeked your interest.
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Also, it’s “piqued your interest,” friend.
Actually cork is indian but Portugal stole it from us, we indians have its mention in our ancient books
You’re thinking about Quercus variabilis, the Asian Cork Oak, which is indeed native to India. Quercus suber, the Cork Oak shown in this video, is biologically native to the Iberian Peninsula. No one stole anything, there can be more than one species of a plant. Don’t be ignorant
Como é que os portugueses roubaram isso à Índia se os portugueses chegaram há Índia em 1498?
Cork has been used in the Iberian Peninsula and Mediterranean basin cultures for over 1000 years......The Portuguese arrived in India via the African maritime route in 1498. Do the math and get the facts.
Again, another fanatic woke is complaining...
Get a freaking grip on real life. It is a tree that can grow in many places. Up voting your own silly comment Laughable - - - - - - - - - - - - BOINK~! 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗺