Many places around the world produce a lot of otherwise discarded wine bottle corks or "bouchons". Villefranche must certainly figure prominently on any list of these places arranged by corks/person! Whether it does or not, two women are running a wonderful program to collect these corks, and by recycling them, generate significant contributions to cancer research. The contribution was reported by Nice Matin to be about 10,000 euros/year.
If you are about to discard one or more corks, you may want to consider how you can add to this ongoing campaign. If a a restaurant, ask the waiter if they participate and if they do, your cork will join the others via that route. If they do not, you can drop that one(s) and any others at any of these locations in the area:
SuperU in Beaulieu
[I will complete the list with an explanation of where each is.]
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