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Tuesday, 20th July 2004 (5417 views)

A new system has been launched which uses recycled wedding bands instead of gold mining.<BR/><BR/>The idea by Good Point Recycling offers an alternative to mining and helps to promote electronics recycling in the US. <BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>Payal Sampat, international campaign director at Earthworks claimed: "Producing a single gold ring generates on average 20 tonnes of mine waste."<BR/><BR/>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.<BR/><BR/>"When we found out how much cleaner recycled gold is than mined gold, we were determined to do more and more of it."<img src="http://directnews.dehavilland.co.uk/dn.gif?feedid=196&itemid=3068489"/>

 

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