Apiliotis recycled silver material sourcing
We are sustainable
All our handmade jewelry are made from Ecosilver (recycled silver) sourced from Cooksongold, UK.
But what does this means?
Let’s give you some more details as we love to be open!
Ecosilver, is an environmentally friendly raw material for jewellery making which is made from 100% recycled scrap metal guaranteed. It is made using scrap jewellery and recycled silver from the medical, electronics and giftware industries, and all of our partner’s Ecosilver products come with a certificate of authenticity as a guarantee to us where it has originated. We have detailed the metal recycling procedure in our article here.
Since 2021, all Cooksongold UK full range of gold and silver bullion products including sheet, wire, solder, tube and grain are made using 100% certified recycled precious metals.
Our supplier is also an ISO accredited company, which means their process has to be continually assessed, to provide assurance that Ecosilver is created using a fully traceable and audited process.
More specifically, Cooksongold:
- is a certified member of Responsible Jewellery Council and Chain of Custody- certificate link. This certificate ensures responsible supply chains, respect to human rights, labor rights and working conditions, health, safety and environment.
- is ISO 9001:2015 certified – follows all requirements for a quality management system in an organization – link.
- is ISO 14001:2015 certified. This ISO is intended for use by an organization seeking to manage its environmental responsibilities in a systematic manner that contributes to the environmental pillar of sustainability – link.
- is ISO ISO 45001:2018 certified for occupational health and safety management systems – link.
We make jewellery with several techniques – on metal, on wax with sculpting and casting procedures, fire sculpting and use different type of silver.
All our jewellery that are made on metal like ring bands, hammered bangles etc, are make using ecosilver wires, tubes, sheets and solder from Cooksongold UK.
All our jewellery that are created on wax, are casted in Athens based workshop using ecosilver fine grains from Cooksongold UK mixed with scrap silver from our workshop. During the casting procedure we use dedicated carting pots for Apiliotis in order to make sure that our pieces with contain only our certified silver.
All our jewellery made with fire sculpting in our studio are created using only our scrap silver metal that is collected during the making procedures at our studio.
Our chains and jewellery findings are made from Silver .925 sourced from Cooksongold, UK or Athens based suppliers (Silvermarket and Bijouterie).
We love making jewellery and when we can do it with the less possible impact to people, animals and the environment, we get ecstatic!
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Apiliotis team
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