Gem & Jewelry Industry

What does “recycled metal” really mean? What we do and don’t do when it comes to recycling

What does “recycled metal” really mean?  What we do and don’t do when it comes to recycling
This blog entry is prompted by a couple of recent questions about working with recycled metals.  For Cecile Raley Designs, “recycled” means something fairly simple: the casting service we use works with recycled metals.  They don’t use “only” recycled but they use them whenever they can.  That means, concretely, that the metal refinery that Taba Casting, our casting house, uses to purchase its casting grain, supplies mostly cleaned recycled metals.  Continue reading