Ep 1. Replacing Leather and Plastic with Cork – Vasco Carto

In this episode we meet Vasco Carto, the man behind Cork Crafts.

We’ll be covering:

• Vasco’s background, from Portugal to County Cork.
• How cork products are made, from tree to shelf.
• How cork compares to leather.
• The unsustainable side of the cork industry: illegal labour and cheap production
• How to diffrenciate between ‘counterfeit’ cork and legitimate, sustainable cork.

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Ceara x

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