I admit, I'm not a wine drinker. But I do have a few friends who are definitely winos. You know who you are.

If you like a nice bottle of wine or two, I pose this question to you. What do you do with the corks? I'm going to assume you recycle the bottles, but what about those corks? How about joining a cork brigade?

A super eco-friendly company named TerraCycle wants your used corks. TerraCycle will be upcycling corks, both natural and synthetic, "into cool products that will be available nationally at major retailers," according to the company's Web site.

Some of the upcycled products that are currently for sale on the Web site are bird feeders made from recycled soda bottles and pots made out of 100 percent crushed e-waste.

But the single most popular product, according to TerraCycle, is worm-waste fertilizer packaged in recycled bottles. I can't make this stuff up. The site claims the fertilizer is foolproof.

There is no telling what new and different eco-product your remnants of dinners and cheese parties past in the form of old corks will become. Kind of cool, right?

To participate in the cork brigade or to check out some of the other products and programs, go to www.terracycle.net.

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