Ethical weddings are growing in numbers – albeit slowly – as are people’s concerns about the kind of jewellery they are going to wear. greenKarat are actively using recycled metals such as gold to make their jewellery and hope to spur consumers towards recycling rather than further mining for precious metals. You can read more about their philosophy here. Recycled certainly doesn’t mean cheap and nasty however. This gorgeous canary diamond engagement ring is around .30 carats and set into white gold and retails for $975.

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