Wine Lovers & World Enviroment Day

In case you didn’t know, June 5th, is World Environment Day, and I just came across something interesting for those who love wine and the great earth it comes from.

Green Cork

As of today, a new wine cork program - Green Cork- is launching in Portugal, and currently in talks to go global. The program focuses on recycling wine bottle corks at central locations such as grocery stores, to facilitate collection. Here in the Algarve, Continente supermarkets are the first to support the program, so you can look to them for their Cork recycling containers, believe the first location will be in Portimao. Then hopefully, we’ll see others such as Modelo, Pingo Doce, Jumbo, etc. following suit.

Blog Action Day – Algarve’s Water

Today (October 15th) is the first annual “Blog Action Day”- where 15,000 bloggers from around the world will post on an important topic - “The Environment”.

For my part, I’m going to focus on a key issue of “water” here in Algarve.

Blog Action Day - 15,000 Bloggers. One Topic: the Environment

How many times have we prepared to travel by going to the doctor for shots, and the pharmacy for pills to ward off all sorts of traveling ills - lots of precautions just in case. Even seasoned travelers sometimes worry about that one thing they can’t control, Water. It’s in ice cubes, on lettuce, in our cooking – it’s everywhere and impossible to control every point.

Well now there’s one less thing to worry about when traveling or living in the Algarve. The water across the region was recently ISO certified for quality, making the Algarve one of the first regions across the globe to certify its tap water.

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