Relation to environment

Suber Extra s.r.l. organization  is deeply aware of importance of cork as a resource for the environmental protection of Mediterranean area. Working in Sardinia, we know environmental risks and emergencies, as the climatic tendency to drought and impoverishment of soil, the spreading of pollution sources, the reduction of biodiversity of animals and plants.

The cork industry can definitely help in reduction of such risks. Because it is an alive material which needs life. Its harvest does not causes any harm to trees, it is an opportunity for maintenance of woods.

Cork woods provide remarkable ecological and economic advantages:

• they limit desertification because they produce large amounts of humus able to retain water and provide nutritious materials to underwood plants as well as to a variety of animal species;

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• they limit damages due to fires, thanks to fireproof proprieties of cork oak bark;

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• they contribute to ground stability by retaining rain and the soil itself with their roots. They reduce landslides risk as well as loss of fertile soil ; 

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• they contribute to atmospheric CO2 absorption;

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• being an aboriginal species, perfectly integrated in its environment, the cork oak is completely compatible with protection of animal and plants biodiversity of Sardinia;

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• they periodically provide a product able to increase income in rural economies. They provide incentives to their own maintenance.

Cork processing, that is traditional stoppers production as well as some useful applications in green building, has been evaluated ecocompatible because of the favourable balance between CO2 input in processing energy and atmospheric CO2 absorbed by woods of origin.

These are the reasons why  Suber Extra s.r.l. organization supports cork industry and invites consumers attentive to environmental policies to choose natural, ecocompatible and recyclable products, in order to enhance everybody's life Quality.