Ecosilver offers a sustainable choice for silversmiths, crafted from 100% recycled sterling silver. This eco-friendly option repurposes old jewellery, medical apparatus, electronics, and giftware, transforming them into new wire, sheet, grain, and solder without sacrificing purity. Recycled silver maintains the same high quality as its newly mined counterpart, yet significantly reduces environmental impact.

When silver is not recycled, it is newly mined.Only +-30% of silver comes from actual silver mines.The remaining 70% comes from projects where silver is a by-product of mining other metals, such as copper, lead and zinc and gold.

Mining causes lots of erosion, releases toxins into the air and contaminates groundwater, soil and surface water by the use of chemicals.  Metal mining contributes to climate change as it requires an incredible amount of energy, not to mention the ongoing melting and processing operations which emit greenhouse gases. The landscape is often left with sinkholes and a loss of biodiversity.

In the countries where minerals are commonly found, companies often exploit the indigenous people by having them work for low wages and in unhealthy and dangerous conditions. Child labour in particular is a big problem in mineral mining. They work both above ground, and underground in mine shafts and tunnels where they risk death or serious injury from landslides, tunnel collapses and explosions.  Plus, all the air that they breathe is filled with dust and sometimes toxic gasses.

All precious metals used by ORJ are eco or recycled metals and that have been purchased from a London Metal Bullion Association accredited supplier.