Tuesday, 20th July 2004 (4558 views)

A new system has been launched which uses recycled wedding bands instead of gold mining.

The idea by Good Point Recycling offers an alternative to mining and helps to promote electronics recycling in the US.

According to the group, gold mining in the US produces more mercury pollution than any other activity and it hopes the recycled bands will be more popular than recycled paper.

Payal Sampat, international campaign director at Earthworks claimed: "Producing a single gold ring generates on average 20 tonnes of mine waste."

Robin Ingenthron, founder of Good Point Recycling explained: "We started off just looking at ways to make computer recycling less expensive, and that led us to recovery of gold and copper from the computers.

"When we found out how much cleaner recycled gold is than mined gold, we were determined to do more and more of it."

 

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