(ANSA) - ROME - From tree to barrique, to artificial nests built by inmates of the Penalty Institute of Alexandria.
It is the virtuous cycle of wood in the name of the recovery of people and materials at the center of the path "The Three Lives of the Tree", the first chapter of the project "The Nest of Sustainability" that the Ricci Curbastro Company in Franciacorta will develop during the course. for the next few years.
The inmates of the Piedmontese prison were in fact entrusted with the task of transforming the staves of barrels and barriques into boxes for artificial nests destined for the company vineyards to house Cinciallegre, Codirossi and other insectivores useful for the natural balance of the vineyards themselves.
"Everything we use in the cellar follows a logic of natural recovery", explains Riccardo Ricci Curbastro of the company certified sustainable with the Equalitas standard since 2017, "such as the cork in the corks used for the production of sound-absorbing and insulating panels or on some wines firm caps in polymer produced from sugar cane, with neutral production impact and entirely recyclable ".
The wood of barrels and barriques that comes from French state-owned forests managed in a sustainable way, is not always easy to recycle, because the classic uses such as tables or planters discount the reduced spaces in homes, as well as in public places.
"We offer these oak staves a third life - highlights Ricci Curbastro - after growing in the forest and
