Type ‘sustainable fashion’ into TikTok’s hashtag section and you’ll be confronted with just shy of a million hits. Enter ‘sustainable jewellery’ and just over 11,000 related videos will appear.
Sustainably crafted jewellery hasn’t quite garnered the same attention as sustainable fashion. There are a few reasons why this might be the case. Firstly, jewellery is, generally speaking, sustainable by nature. The pieces that you wear daily should stand the test of time in your collection and, provided they’re constructed from quality materials, you’ll never throw them away. Jewellery also falls into the heirloom category, meaning particularly special or valuable pieces are passed down from ancestors and remain in the family.
