Comments on: Eco friendly, Fair trade Certifed Jewelry by GreenKarat

By: Kapil

Kapil — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:33:14 +0000

I think handmade Jewelry is more Eco friendly.

By: kapil

kapil — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:32:19 +0000

it is a nice cause of point.
that you can donate old jewelry to make a new one. i think habdmade jewelry is more eco friendly.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:53:51 +0000

I wish I had seen this blog sooner. I’ve been buying silver earrings from overstock.

I took a jewelry class once and we only used vinegar and salt and other eco friendly things to clean and polish our metals. I think it’s possible.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:00:44 +0000

Hey! Thanks for visiting my blog! I’m impressed with your service on the USS JFK. What type of work did you do?

By: admin

admin — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:48:34 +0000

wow very interesting Tricia. So GreenKarat looks after the mining industry and does not really go after the casting, and polishing, and the jewelry stores. The least we could do is buy synthetic jewelry that looks like the real thing. GreenKarat is trying to do with Diamonds… At the very least gold is not purchased a lot…

YOu are right about those cleaning chemicals though. Eco friendly cleaners are not tough enough yet. I think I am going back to Tide for my clothes washing! Eco cleaners suck unless you want them for light duties…

Thanks for the comments. Saw you on the pay per post forums. What other forums do you hang out if your still reading…

By: Tricia

Tricia — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:05:42 +0000

Unfortunately processing gold and turning it into jewelery is not all that eco friendly. I used to be a jeweller - casting gold (melting and casting it into say the shape of a ring), polishing, soldering and setting stones as well as using a diamond to cut designs in the gold and there’s a lot of chemicals, gases and energy used in the process that are not eco friendly.

For example, after casting gold rings it’s not uncommon for the freshly cast rings to be blasted with a mix of industrial hydrogen peroxide and cyanide. Those chemicals going right down the sink into public water systems.

Most trade jewelers have small offices in the city, often in buildings filled with other jewelery trades people. There aren’t special water filtering systems or air filtering systems to removed these chemicals and gases from the air or keep them out of the water.

Until practices change within the jewelry trade it’s not really possible to call jewelry eco friendly. My opinion anyway as someone who worked in the trade for 7 years before changing careers.