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May 7th 2010
There are more and more jewelers committed to responsible gold, which support initiatives for the precious metal is produced in a socially and environmentally responsible, reports the newspaper “Le Figaro”.
The Alliance for Responsible Mining announced last March a cooperation agreement with Fair Trade Labelling Organizations, in order to create a label to distinguish the gold of fair trade, providing that constitutes 5% of the overall market supply Jewelry in 15 years.
French firms such as Cartier, Boucheron and Swiss Piaget have responsible practices that have won the listing that the NGO Oxfam launched to combat the production of the precious metal in ways harmful to the environment and societies of the countriesproducers.
These jewelers are also members of the Jewelry Council Manager (RJC, according to its acronym in English), an association that regulates the profession through a statement that establishes best practices for the procurement and purchase of metal, to be respected by the signatories and making meet their suppliers, and which recently entered the Swiss Chopard.
In the United States, hypermarkets U.S. Walmart began marketing last year a line of jewelry ethical, where the gold comes from two mines responsible, while Tiffany & Co acquires two years throughout their supply of the precious metal in the mine BinghamCanyon of Utah (USA) where the extraction is governed by ethical criteria.
For its part, Cartier began in 2009 to buy gold from Eurocantera, a mine that explodes Honduras responsible for the Italian company Goldlake where toxic products are not used in the collection, such as mercury, although so far only covers 5% of needs of the jeweler.
In France, many companies recycle gold and silver jewelers, and trust their manufacturing processes to local artisans in order to reduce CO2 emissions.
Among them, Luxury Ethical Jewellery, which is recycled gold and supplier to Oro Verde, a Colombian company that does not use mercury and restore the land after extraction, which already supplies 22 firms of jewelry.