Sustainable Handmade Silver Jewellery
At Luna Tree, sustainability means creating handmade silver jewellery with care. Mindfully made for people and planet.
Focusing on recycled silver, thoughtful small-batch production, long-lasting designs and recyclable packaging.
At Luna Tree, we believe jewellery should feel meaningful in every sense. Whilst created as responsibly as possible. From recycled silver and traditional handcrafting techniques to plastic free packaging, every Luna Tree piece is created with love and intention.
Passion for the environment and all its inhabitants has us treading as lightly as we can, how we can. That’s why sustainability sits at the heart of everything we do.
As a result, you can wear jewellery you love, while feeling confident about the values behind it.
Silver Mining
Mining is by its nature is a dangerous and dirty job. Extraction of silver from the earth has been going on since humankind got a taste for the shiny stuff and the need to satisfy the primal urge to adorn themselves. Silver is found with seams of copper. The silver extraction techniques from the earth and the other metals and minerals it is found with does not have a positive environmental impact.
Silver mining happens all over the world, from the US, Russia, Chile, Poland, Bolivia and even the UK. Mexico is the largest producer, closely followed by China. Depending on the mining company and area, silver mining may occur in an open pit or in an underground mine. Different locations warrant different mining techniques, depending on the types of rocks, local practices and customs and safety considerations.
Recycled silver and responsible materials
At Luna Tree, recycled silver is our go to as a raw material for all our jewellery. By using recycled silver, we are protecting people from the dangers of mining, the environment from land erosion and habitat disturbance, while greatly improving the carbon footprint for our metal of choice. Our recycled silver comes from recycled electrical equipment, jewellery over stocks, off cuts and mis created jewellery. Prized as a great electrical conductor, silver is used in all technologies from tvs to mobile phones, medicine, photography, solar energy and electric vehicles. Silver is stripped from these items and reused to remain in a circular economy of use.
Silver can be reworked time and time again with no reduction in quality, making it the ultimate in recyclability.
Our Cheshire studio made pieces are created using recycled sterling silver. Recycled silver offers the same beauty and durability as newly mined silver while helping reduce demand for additional mining.
Explore our recycled silver jewellery handmade in Cheshire.
Artisan Partners and Sustainability
Sustainable environmental practices have been developed within the community of our artisan partners with the use of solar panels enabling the village to run battery storage units in the evenings for light.
Learn more about our Fair Trade partnerships in Thailand.
Slow Fashion
We believe jewellery should be worn often, treasured over time and kept for years to come. Our pieces can be worn for a lifetime for many different looks and occasions. Luna Tree is anti fast fashion and over consumption. We believe that beautiful handcrafted jewellery should be affordable for all, having pieces which work for many budgets. Silver jewellery can be recycled continiously.
Packaging
We provide all our products in 100% zero waste, plastic free packaging.
We keep packaging simple and thoughtful using recyclable materials, designed to protect your jewellery, while reducing waste. Our jewellery gift boxes and leaflets, along with the mailing boxes are all paper composition and enable us to leave no trace, except for beautiful jewellery!
The jewellery comes in protective clear bags made from potato and corn starches, which are made in the UK. These jewellery bags are EN13432 compostable PLA and can be landfilled or composted without environmental impact.
Our art prints are wrapped in paper and cardboard.
Our wholesale orders are always sent in reused boxes.
At Luna Tree we are continually looking at ways to improve our ethical performance as a business and to reduce our impact on the earth. We have worked hard to reduce and eliminate plastic where we can from our supply chain. We are a Silver Status Plastic Free Champion with Surfers Against Sewage.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Luna Tree jewellery sustainable?
We focus on recycled silver, small-batch handmade production, fair trade artisan partnerships and thoughtful packaging which do not harm the planet.
Do you use recycled silver?
Our Cheshire made pieces are crafted using recycled sterling silver and recycled silver is sourced within Thailand when orders are placed with our artisan partners.
Is recycled silver jewellery better quality?
Recycled silver jewellery offers excellent quality and durability. Silver does not weaken or become less in any way no matter how many times it is melterd down and reshaped.
Is your jewellery vegan friendly?
Yes, Luna Tree is a Vegan run business. All Luna Tree jewellery is made using vegan friendly equipment and consumables. The Vegan ethics of Luna Tree are a seamless continuation of the Luna Tree founder who has been vegan for over 16 years.
What about your gemstones?
The gemstones we use in some designs are ethically sourced from UK suppliers. We work only with suppliers who’s assurances we can trust regarding origin and working conditions. However there are certain stones we will never use due to them originating from locations of conflict, where their expots will directly fund weapons. These are also places which commonly have child labour in their mining.
