Recycled Silver

Our Gold and Platinum are sourced from our partners Oro Verde™, and are therefore certified Fairtrade and Fairmined. Despite much searching, we have not been able to find an artisanal supply of silver that is both ecologically sustainable and benefits miners. We continue to work at this, but until we get there we will continue to use our own 100% Recycled Sterling Silver, sourced from here in the UK.

Silver can be recycled again and again. It can always be refined back into its pure state and re-worked from there as new. We believe this is a better ethical alternative than using silver from mines that have the potential to damage the environment by using chemicals such as mercury and arsenic.

Although the interest in mining ‘ethical silver’ has not been as great as the attention on attaining fairtrade gold and diamond standards, it is on the increase and we hope will follow on swiftly as ethical standards across the mining industry improve.

For more information on ‘ethical silver’ read the Ecologist article from May 2009