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Going greener with eco-friendly cork flooring

Green thinkers consider cork flooring to be eco-friendly because it's a renewable resource: It's made from the bark of the cork oak, and the tree isn't cut down. During periodic harvesting, the outer bark is stripped from the trunks without injuring the trees, which live for more than a century.

Cork has been a popular flooring material in Europe for many years, but in this country, it's...

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