While fiberglass and polystyrene remain popular, an unexpected champion is making a quiet but powerful comeback: cork insulation. Naturally sourced, impressively durable, and remarkably effective, cork is proving to be one of the smartest choices for sustainable home comfort.

Today, virtually 100% of harvested corkwood can be reutilized. Therefore, at every stage from the forest onward, Cork Supply has developed closed-loop systems to capture all excess and sub-grade corkwood by-products. Cork Supply has installed a centralized vacuum system throughout our production facilities to capture this cork dust before it reaches the air. This also creates a cleaner, healthier work environment. We have begun to substitute the use of natural gas and electricity by biomass. The result of this is 535,6 ton of CO2eq p/year that are not released into the atmosphere

Cork is a natural, reusable and recyclable raw material, extracted from cork oaks without ever harming the normal development of the species or damaging the tree.

The extracted cork is fully used in the production of its various applications. After being transformed and fulfilling its function, it can be reused in the production process.

Using cork in the cabin of a car may sound a bit out of the ordinary, but it all makes perfect sense for Mazda: the company began life in 1920 as a cork manufacturer known as Toyo Cork Kogyo.

Cork offers a high-performance, plant-based material as a sustainable alternative to animal leather and planet-polluting plastics.

Sustainable furniture is taking the design industry by storm, they’re a step towards making our homes and our daily lives more eco-friendly and sustainable. They’re an attempt to cast aside toxic materials, and instead, add furniture designs to our home that won’t rot away on Earth for years once we’re done with them. And, one such furniture design is the Gago rocking chair by Dam.