Cork Collective is the Official Sustainability Partner of NYCWFF 2024
Cork Collective is proud to announce an environmentally-focused partnership to promote the sustainability of real cork closures at the Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival’s 17th annual edition this October 17-20, 2024 in Brooklyn, New York. The festival is presented by Invesco QQQ.
Established with the collective goal of raising awareness of the environmental benefits of cork, the Cork Collective and the NYCWFF will be executing a groundbreaking cork recycling program across the entire 4-day event. As the official sustainability partner of the festival, the Cork Collective will provide festival-wide recycling bins to consumers, participating talent, and wine and spirits sponsors across all events.
The Cork Collective will support the NYCWFF’s sustainability efforts with on-site education to demonstrate cork’s versatility and value in powering a circular economy that repurposes stoppers into materials that can keep significant amounts of CO2—retained by all natural cork stoppers—sequestered for decades, while also contributing to eco-friendly community projects. Cork is a 100% sustainable and renewable material that comes from oak trees that are never felled, and cork products can be given a second life through reuse, upcycling, and regeneration, making it one of the world’s great sustainability stories.