{"id":1187794,"date":"2020-06-02T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1025856"},"modified":"2020-06-02T05:47:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:47:00","slug":"top-jewellery-maker-to-only-use-recycled-gold-silver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1187794","title":{"rendered":"Top jewellery maker to only use recycled gold, silver"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danish jewellery maker Pandora said on Tuesday<\/a> it would stop using mined gold and silver in its pieces starting in 2025, a sustainability first in an industry that consumes a big portion of the globe\u2019s total precious metals output.<\/p>\n

The Copenhagen-based company, the world\u2019s largest jewellery maker by volume, said its shift to recycled supplies would cut carbon emissions by at least 66% for silver and more than 99% for gold.<\/p>\n

Pandora, best known for its charms, said that only about 15% the world\u2019s silver supply comes from recycled metal, even though reusing the metals generates a third of the carbon emissions produced by silver mining. Recycled gold, in turn, has emissions 600 times lower than mined gold, it said.<\/p>\n

Currently, 71% of the silver and gold in Pandora\u2019s jewellery comes from recycled sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chief executive officer, Alexander Lacik, said the new approach won\u2019t drag down the quality of the jewelry produced.<\/p>\n

\u201cMetals mined centuries ago are just as good as new,\u201d Lacik said in the statement<\/a>. Meanwhile, \u201cthe need for sustainable business practices is only becoming more important,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Another key benefits to the environment, according to Pandora, is that there would be a significant reduction in water use as a result of less mining.<\/p>\n

The announcement is part of the company\u2019s master plan of becoming carbon neutral by 2025<\/a>. This includes emissions from Pandora\u2019s crafting facilities, owned and operated stores, distribution sites and offices.<\/p>\n

Annual emissions from the global gold market are equivalent to roughly 126 million tonnes of CO2. More than a third of that comes directly from mining and smelting, data from the World Gold Council shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Full shift from mined to recycled silver and gold will reduce carbon emissions and the use of water as a result of less mining, Pandora says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4,391],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187794"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1187864,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187794\/revisions\/1187864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}