How To Use Eco-Friendly Metals In Your Business

How to Use Eco Friendly Metals in Your BusinessMany people assume that making your business more eco-friendly can have a negative impact on your bottom line. This is not necessarily the case – in fact, it can even improve it. Wondering how to go about it? Start with sourcing eco-friendly metals for your jewellery! To help you get an idea of the best sustainable metals to use, we’ve put together a guide on choosing the most eco-friendly metals for your business.

A guide to the most eco-friendly metals

You hear it on the television and you read it online – most businesses are making the effort to go green. Whether this is through making their processes more environmentally friendly to using more sustainably sourced materials, it’s something on everyone’s radar. So why not do the same for your jewellery business? To reduce the environmental footprint of your business, we’d recommend trying to source these eco-friendly metals:

Recycled Silver

For a green alternative to sterling silver, choose recycled silver instead. The beauty is, it works in exactly the same way as any other type of silver you’re used to working with. It doesn’t just have to be recycled silver wire either. With a range of other products all made from recycled scrap silver, like sheet, solder and grain, you can continue to make the jewellery you always have done with regular silver.

Recycled Gold

In the same vein, if gold jewellery is what your business offers – switch to using recycled gold. You can create jewellery that has ethical origin, as well as being more environmentally friendly. Find recycled gold sheets, panels and wire for use in your workshop. Interested? Trial using certified Fairtrade gold too, for further peace of mind for you and your customers.

Stainless Steel

Looking to source metals that are 100% recyclable? Use stainless steel. As one of the most durable, hard-wearing and easily accessible materials, stainless steel wire works great when soldering or even as a chain for bracelets and necklaces.

Fun fact: Any stainless steel product has approximately 60% recycled stainless steel content in it!

Aluminum

With the ability to be melted down and reformed continuously without any impact on quality, aluminium is one of the most eco-friendly metals for your jewellery business. Perfect for using as metal stamping material, aluminium is a versatile and reasonably priced sustainable metal to introduce into your business. You may already use aluminium sheets in your base metal jewellery making, meaning the steps to becoming more eco-friendly are fewer for you – it’s a win win!

Scrap

And finally, one of the easiest amends to make if you’re wondering how to make your business environmentally sustainable – use your scraps. Creating quirky, one-off pieces will appeal to your customers even more if they’re environmentally sustainable. Next time you go to get rid of your scraps, save them and come up with a plan on how to use them as a part of your designs!

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