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Recycled Jewelry made from E-Waste

Recycled Jewelry

E-waste is a huge environmental problem, and one artist is turning all of that potential trash into striking recycled jewelry!

Artist Marcele Godoy is a Chilean graduate student studying here in the U.S., and he was appalled at the e-waste that was all around him:

Since I live in USA, I am surprised by how quickly multiple objects are considered garbage and you can easily find them on the streets every day. I have collected objects many times to reuse them in projects or for personal use. This is because they are generally discarded for a better, a nicer or a newer one, and not because its useful life is over.

Godoy decided that he wasn’t going to get mad – he’d get crafty! He created a line of recycled jewelry using e-waste that otherwise would have been landfill-bound. He says:

I started this project trying to find a new use for these items, rescuing and transforming many of them into an object that can be used in our daily life with a new meaning, now as an ornament and not as a secondary element.

The jewelry is not available for sale, as far as I can tell. Godoy calls it a “personal project,” and I love how it calls attention to the functionality of something that would otherwise go straight into the trash. He has a lovely slide show on his website showcasing the recycled jewelry that he created, though, and if you’re familiar with jewelry-making, it looks like something that you could recreate with basic wire-wrapping techniques just based on this beautiful photos.

You can see a couple of my favorite pieces at the top of this post, and view the complete slide show of the entire project on Godoy’s website.

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Written by Becky Striepe

My name is Becky Striepe (rhymes with “sleepy”), and I am a crafts and food writer from Atlanta, Georgia with a passion for making our planet a healthier, happier, and more compassionate place to live. My mission is to make vegan food and crafts accessible to everyone!. If you like my work, you can also find me on Twitter, Facebook, and .

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