With so many of our discarded electronics ending up in landfill, there’s a literal goldmine out there.
Walter launched her sustainably-minded jewellery label back in 2017, after being inspired by a school trip she went on years ago. “When I was 16 and studying design, I was taken to a foundry in Melton Mowbray,” she recalls. “This amazing man Peter, who had just set it up, gave us this incredible introduction and [told us], ‘The future of gold mining is not in the Earth’s core; it is in our landfill sites.’ I guess that idea just really stuck in my head.
Using e-waste can also help engage more customers in finding out where their jewellery is actually coming from. “I find it really exciting,” Dominic Jones, creative director of 886 by the Royal Mint, says. “This is a completely new stream of material. It’s not just recycling; it’s preserving [precious metals].”, too.
Being able to offer customers transparency over the whole supply chain is another advantage of using recovered electronics. “[When] recycling jewellery, most of the time you don’t know where the jewellery is coming from and there is no traceability,” Daehn explains. “The chain of custody is really important for Courbet because we want to know the origin of every material that we use.
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