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Before buying gold jewelry, ask yourself if you really need it. See if you can borrow gold items, or check secondhand shops and eBay. Jewelers can alter gold items you don’t wear, or melt them down and rework them into new pieces. Or, look for new jewelry made out of recycled gold. The website greenKarat offers jewelry made from recycled 14K and 18K gold.

greenKarat Gold Jewelry:  http://www.greenkarat.com/about/about.asp

From their website:

About greenKarat:

Our greater goal at greenKarat is to end destructive gold and diamond mining. We believe that widespread and permanent change will ultimately occur through the voice of consumer buying decisions. Our mission is to provide an ecologically and socially responsible jewelry alternative to those who seek change.

Effecting Change Through Recycled Gold

Gold is a very versatile metal. It is malleable and ductile. It’s a good conductor of heat and electricity, immune to tarnish, and resistant to acids. Although these properties make it very useful in industrial applications, 80% of the gold used each year nonetheless goes into jewelry.

While gold is valuable enough to provide an incentive to recycle, significant amounts of gold sit idle, while mining continues at a pace of 2,500 tons a year. In fact, there is enough gold above ground (already mined) to satisfy all demands of the jewelry industry for the next 50 years. Much of it sits in bank vaults and in the form of old and unused jewelry.

greenKarat believes that consumers have the ability to demand the liberation of that idle gold through their purchasing decisions. Demand for recycled gold, in conjunction with campaigns to clamp down on ecologically and socially unacceptable mining, holds the potential to effect change. Because this methodology helps societal custom work in concert with principles of commerce, it can be embraced by consumers and producers alike, and therefore result in sustainable change.

Buying recycled gold is one of the most ecologically and socially responsible choices a consumer can make. Thank you for considering greenKarat when you make that choice.

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