Produced crown corks since the first
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Weight of the crown corks
produced from the beginning of the year
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The crown cork was first invented 1892 in Baltimore by William Painter. It is used to hermetically seal a
bottle. Nowadays crown corks not only feed the purpose
of sealing a bottle - they are collected, played with and even used in famous art works. Usually crown
corks are made from aluminium but
there is always the problem how to keep
the gas in a bottle of beer after it is
opened but for these cases there are also crown corks made from silicone that can be put in the
dishwasher after they were used.
If adding up the numbers it's incredible how many crown corks are produced worldwide, used and
thrown away. Even though people were asking if this could be a risk for the
environment the good news is that they are recyclable.
Every year more than 1.25 trillion
crown corks are produced on this planet which means over 3.4 billion a day. One crown cork weighs
roughly 2 grams so the weight comes to 2.5 million metric tons of crown corks a year. This is an
unimaginable number.
How many crown corks produced worldwide?
