What is a Cork Board?
A cork board is a framed section of cork backed with wood or plastic. Typically, a cork board is used as a bulletin board, because the resilient nature of cork makes it ideal for sticking pins and tacks into. Cork boards can come in a wide variety of sizes, and they are very useful for schools, hospitals, and other environments where information needs to be posted for everyone to see. If well cared for, a cork board can last many years. Cork is the product of the cork oak tree, found widespread in the Mediterranean. A large proportion of the world’s cork comes from Portugal, which hosts approximately 30% of the world’s cork trees and supplies around 50% of the world’s cork. The bark is actually an accumulation of dead tissue which can be stripped safely from a cork oak once every nine years or so. The cork is removed in whole sheets for processing, and the tree is left to grow in peace until another batch of cork is ready. Cork is a sustainable tree product, because the trees are left
