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Recycled Jewellery is a long term trend, because it's great way to reduce, reuse, and recycle old bits and pieces into beautiful DIY jewellery! Easy on your budget and on the environment, these recycled crafts are must-makes. DIY as a broad cultural movement, spanning many domains and materials. such as, plasters, newpaper, tin cans and so on.
Environmental reason: protect environment is one of the hot topics in today, by the people's concerned. More eco-friendly as opposed to being environmentally indifferent, can be classified as a trend. Recyclable jewellery is a sustainable trend. Since people began to pay attention to environmental protection, using recyclable materials such as coins, tin cans and industrial cosmetic products make jewelry is not a new concept and has become more and more widespread. China, as a major industrial nation and populous country, needs pay more attention to protecting environment.
Target consumers: recycled jewellery usually from DIY. So the recycled jewellery is popular to early adopters. People can through social medias follow them, such as YouTube have tutorials. DIY is re-purpose some things and can make people relax.
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Plastic: friend or foe? One thing's for sure, no one wants to see it leach poisonous chemicals into our landfills, which is why pre- and post-consumer recycled plastic is making brisk trade. Patagonia spins the stuff into fleece jackets, Melissa pounds it into shoes, and now British designer Tonya O'Hara turns discarded plastic into shiny new jewelry. O'Hara takes salvaged PET plastic bottles and slices and shapes each piece by hand. The entrancing result? Modern wearable art you can take anywhere.
Paola Mirai is an former Art Director from Milan, who gave up Photoshop, the office and the ad-life in order to create bracelets, rings, pendants from plastic and old hardware.
Even if they are made from series products, each piece of the Cirkuita jewelry is unique. And, even if they stem from industrial products, Paola manages to give soul to each of them, by exploring the beauty inside technology.
She believes that these circuits are icons of the information era, when devices become obsolete and out-of-date very quickly. Just think what information, what conversations, what images those devices were part of and helped transmit. There is definitely a particular poetry to those jewelry.