Clean and green: Four tips to help you find your planet-friendly rings
Filed under: Rings, Engagement, Green Weddings
If you know you want everyone who helped make your rings a reality to feel the same pleasure in them as you do, there are a few simple steps you can take.1. Get a Certificate of Origin from the retailer. Find out where your diamond came from. Canadian diamonds are likely to be clean; many African diamonds are not.
2. Consider faux diamonds. If they're man-made, they weren't mined; they won't have used child or even slave labour at any point in their production. Or, step off the beaten path, and go for some other gem entirely!
3. Consider recycled gold.
4. Buy local. US gold is mined using good business practices; Canadian diamonds are likely to be conflict-free. Buying close to home means lower transportation costs, so it's all good!
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