“For the past five years we have been working in silver reclaimed from photographic waste but as was inevitable traditional dark room photography is something of a dying art and our ability to extract enough silver from the waste chemicals was growing more and more tenuous. We started to explore other sources of recycled silver and landed on circuit boards because the are abundant but more importantly it is precisely this abundance which I think makes them such a key component in any strategy for a more sustainable approach to waste.
I have always been passionate about single source recycled metals as I believe they offer more accountability and transparency than more generic mixed source recycled silver. Precious metals are an amazing substances to work in but with all the environmental and social issues directly and indirectly associated with the mining industry I have been adamant since the beginning that I wanted to offer my customers an alternative to these harmfully extracted metals.” Heather explains.
Urban Mining
Design: Ashley Heather